Llion Jones

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

Biography Jones was born 1984 in Bangor, raised in Bangor and Abergynolwyn in Gwynedd, Wales. He attended Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor, Jones graduated in 2009, Jones was a coauthor of "Attention is All You Need", a 2017 paper which introduced the transformer.

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, also joined by Ren Ito.

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