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Llion Jones is a machine learning researcher, co-founder and CTO of Sakana AI.



Born
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
EducationUniversity of Birmingham (BSc, MSc)
OccupationMachine learning researcher
EmployerSakana AI
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Llion Jones
Born
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
EducationUniversity of Birmingham (BSc, MSc)
OccupationMachine learning researcher
EmployerSakana AI
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Biography

Jones was born 1984 in Bangor, raised in Bangor and Abergynolwyn in Gwynedd, Wales.[1][2] He attended Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor,[1] then received a bachelors in artificial intelligence and computer science and masters in advanced computer science from the University of Birmingham.[3][4] Jones graduated in 2009,[1] joining Google's YouTube as a software engineer in 2011 or 2012, then moving to research in machine intelligence and natural language processing at Google Research in 2015.[4][5] Jones was the fifth coauthor of the paper "Attention is All You Need", a 2017 paper which introduced the transformer.[6]

In 2023, Llion left Google Japan to found the startup Sakana AI along with former Google employee and Stability AI officer David Ha, becoming its chief technology officer,[7][8] also joined by Ren Ito.[9]

Jones has criticized the narrow scope of AI research,[10][11] such as Google's limited focus on large language models.[4]

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