Llion Jones

Casual indoor portrait of AI researcher Llion Jones in a room with plants in the background.

Sakana AI

Llion Jones is the founder of Sakana AI, an artificial intelligence research and development company based in Tokyo. He initially joined Google in 2011 as a software engineer before moving to Google Research, where he played a significant role in the development of the Transformer architecture, co-authoring the influential Attention is All You Need paper.

Videos

Left to right: Azeem Azhar (Exponential View), Andreas Hufenstuhl (PwC), Nancy Xu,(Moonhub) and Llion Jones, (Sakana AI) on stage at the DLD Munich Conference 2025, discussing the development of AI agents.

The Age of AI Agents

AI agents are evolving beyond simple chatbots into systems that can take meaningful action in the human world. In this DLD25 session, moderated by Azeem Azhar (Exponential View), industry experts discuss the scope…
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Events

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DLD Munich 2025

Europe’s leading innovation conference celebrates its 20th anniversary from January 16-18, 2025, in Munich. Find out about speakers, location details and how to attend…
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