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Jakob UszkoreitCo-founder and CEO · InceptiveResearcher↗3 shared research fields
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Researcher
Dirk Weissenborn
InceptiveFounding Member of Technical Staff
Weissenborn helped develop language models and systems for answering questions from long documents at Google DeepMind. He now applies sequence modeling at Inceptive to design mRNA medicines—using AI to search for biological instructions with desired effects.
Career & education
Current roleInceptive2021-presentFounding Member of Technical Staff
Inceptive2021-presentWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations120,695As of Nov 1, '26
citations+3,770Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
With Alexey Dosovitskiy, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Xiaohua Zhai, Thomas Unterthiner, Mostafa Dehghani, Matthias Minderer and others ·The Vision Transformer recognizes images by treating patches like words in a sequence.
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