Jakob Uszkoreit is the CEO and co-founder of Inceptive, a biotech start-up. He’s also a co-author of “Attention is All You Need,” the paper that created transformer models. Today, transformers power chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. They’ve also led to breakthroughs in everything from generating images to predicting the structure of proteins.

On today’s show, Jakob talks about the invention of transformer models. And he discusses how he’s using those models to try to invent new kinds of medicine, with a particular focus on RNA. 

Jakob Uszkoreit is the CEO and co-founder of Inceptive, a biotech start-up. He&rsquo;s also a co-author of &ldquo;Attention is All You Need,&rdquo; the paper that created transformer models. Today, transformers power chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. They&rsquo;ve also led to breakthroughs in everything from generating images to predicting the structure of proteins.
On today&rsquo;s show, Jakob talks about the invention of transformer models. And he discusses how he&rsquo;s using those models to try to invent new kinds of medicine, with a particular focus on RNA.

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The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine

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