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Jakob Uszkoreit

Transformer co-author; Inceptive co-founder

Inceptive · formerly Google

Jakob Uszkoreittransformer co-authorInceptive AI
Quick profileJakob Uszkoreit ranks #62 on the AGI Times 100 (2026) — public researchers, engineers, and builders ranked by influence. Not an intelligence test.

Jakob Uszkoreit ranks #62 on the AGI Times 100 (2026) as a public figure whose work shaped how AI is researched, engineered, or deployed. Transformer co-author; Inceptive co-founder.

Associated primarily with Inceptive · formerly Google, Uszkoreit is known for: Attention Is All You Need co-author; Biological sequence design entrepreneurship; Google Brain research era. Those threads generate the search demand we map in the keyword doors on this page — name queries, lab queries, and the breakthrough phrases people type after a news cycle.

Influence, on our methodology, is not a personality contest. It is the combination of ideas others reuse, systems others ship on top of, institutions that allocate talent and capital, and public conversation that changes what builders and buyers do next.

Citations below point to primary papers, lab pages, or reputable public sources. Affiliations change. Use this profile as a map for learning and due diligence — then train your team to apply modern AI tools with clear ownership, privacy rules, and human review.

Known for

  • Attention Is All You Need co-author
  • Biological sequence design entrepreneurship
  • Google Brain research era

Citations & further reading

Why operators careTransformer alumni entrepreneurship cluster.