Jakob Uszkoreit
Researcher · Founder
Now Advisor, Transfyr; Founder, Inceptive
Latest on AI4S.fyiTimeline · Sep 3Inceptive's fine-tuned models design CAR-T mRNAs that cleared more B cells in mice than Capstan's optimised sequence in three of five triesAccount links back to jakob.uszkoreit.net
Affiliations
About
Jakob Uszkoreit is co-founder and chief executive of Inceptive, which he started with Rhiju Das out of Stanford to design RNA molecules by combining large-scale experiments with deep learning. Before that he was a senior software engineer at Google, doing deep learning research in Google Brain, building the Google Assistant's language understanding team and working on early Google Translate. He holds a master's degree in computer science and mathematics from TU Berlin.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: bio.org ↗
Selected work
- Attention Is All You Need ↗
Introduces the Transformer, a model built on attention alone.
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Founded
InceptiveDrug discovery · 2021 · 2 rounds on record · disclosed $120M · Round (unnamed) $100MBackground: Google (co-author of the Transformer paper) (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Rhiju Das
On the timeline
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