Llion Jones, a co-author of Google's pivotal Transformers paper, has left the company to help start Sakana AI.All eight authors of the paper, which is central to the latest developments in generative artificial intelligence, have now left Google.Sakana AI founders Llion Jones, left, and David Ha, meet at a rooftop bar in Tokyo.
"It's just a side effect of big company-itis," Jones told CNBC in an interview. "I think the bureaucracy had built to the point where I just felt like I couldn't get anything done." "We're kind of crazy," Jones said. "We're looking at nature-inspired methods to see if we can find a different way of doing things, rather than doing a huge, humongous model." Sakana isn't announcing any investors., he started "researching machine intelligence and natural language understanding" at Google in 2015.