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Jakob Uszkoreit

Jakob Uszkoreit

Co-Founder & CEO, Inceptive

Organization
Inceptive

Position
Co-Founder & CEO, Inceptive

🇩🇪German
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Intelligence Briefing

Co-inventor of the Transformer architecture ("Attention Is All You Need", 2017). Left Google to co-found Inceptive in 2021 with Stanford professor Rhiju Das, applying Transformer-based AI to design novel RNA molecules for drug development. Raised $120M+ from Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and others. Working on foundation models for RNA that could revolutionize vaccines and therapeutics.

Expertise
TransformersComputational BiologyRNA DesignMachine LearningModel Inventor
Education

MS, Computer Science & MathematicsTechnische Universität Berlin

AGI Position Assessment

Risk Level
LOW
MODERATE
HIGH
CRITICAL
Predicted AGI Timeline

Unknown

Focused on applying AI to beneficial domains like drug discovery and healthcare. Believes the most important safety question is ensuring AI is used for high-impact positive applications.

Safety Approach

Focused on applying AI to beneficial domains like drug discovery and healthcare. Believes the most important safety question is ensuring AI is used for high-impact positive applications.

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Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10