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Sakana AI
Co-founder and CEO
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Llion Jones
Co-founder and CTO at Sakana AI
Jones was one of the Transformer's authors and is often credited with naming the paper "Attention Is All You Need." He later founded Sakana AI in Tokyo, known for nature-inspired approaches to model building.
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Co-founder and CTO 2023-presentSakana AI
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