After leaving Google, Jakob Uszkoreit started Inceptive to apply AI to drug development
Summary
Before co-founding biotech startup Inceptive, Jakob Uszkoreit had an idea that would eventually make generative artificial intelligence possible. That idea gave way to the transformer, the neural network architecture that underpins generative AI. "There are actually applications, for example at Google and other places, where transformers have been deployed in production long before, but to much, much less fanfare," Uszkoreit told CNBC in an interview in June. The transformer idea was published by Uszkoreit and seven other Google researchers in the 2017 "Attention Is All You Need" paper. "Maybe Google here hasnt been able to be as daring as, you know, a much, much smaller company such as OpenAI when it comes to applying this technology to quite different types of products," Uszkoreit said.