Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.
Llion Jones
Researcher
Co-author of the 2017 transformer paper. Co-founded Sakana AI in Tokyo in 2023 and is its chief technology officer; Sakana searches over models by evolution rather than scaling one.
Known for Attention Is All You Need (2017); Sakana AI
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Jul 2023 – nowSakana AI, Co-founder and CTOSources Sakana AI raises $135M Series B at a $2.65B valuation TechCrunch via Yahoo Finance 2025-11-17