Co-inventor of Transformer · Co-founded Sakana AICo-inventor of Transformer · Co-founded Sakana AI
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Welsh-born AI researcher. Co-author of the Transformer paper (2017) while at Google Brain. Spent years at Google working on language and sequence models. Left Google in 2023 to co-found Sakana AI in Tokyo with David Ha, exploring nature-inspired AI approaches such as evolutionary model merging. The company quickly became one of Japan's most prominent AI startups.
Welsh-born AI researcher. Co-author of the Transformer paper (2017) while at Google Brain. Spent years at Google working on language and sequence models. Left Google in 2023 to co-found Sakana AI in Tokyo with David Ha, exploring nature-inspired AI approaches such as evolutionary model merging. The company quickly became one of Japan's most prominent AI startups.