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Llion Jones
Sakana AICo-founder and CTO
Jones co-authored the Transformer, the neural-network design behind modern language AI, and helped build its original code and visualizations.[1] At Sakana AI, which he co-founded in Tokyo[2], he co-developed Continuous Thought Machines: models that use changing patterns of neural activity to work through problems over time.[3]
Career & education
Current roleSakana AI2023-presentCo-founder and CTO
Sakana AI2023-presentEducation
Work 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.
citations329,913As of Nov 1, '26
citations+8,244Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Attention Is All You Need
With Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Aidan Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser and Illia PolosukhinThe Transformer uses attention to translate text while allowing faster training.
References
- Attention Is All You Need — individual author contributionsarxiv.org
Jones co-authored the Transformer, the neural-network design behind modern language AI, and helped build its original code and visualizations.
- Continuous Thought Machines — original researchpub.sakana.ai
he co-developed Continuous Thought Machines: models that use changing patterns of neural activity to work through problems over time.
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