Llion Jones (@YesThisIsLion) / X

Llion Jones

491 posts

Llion Jones

@YesThisIsLion

Sakana.ai 🐠🐟 Welsh Artificial Intelligence Researcher living in Tokyo. #AIAYN

Tokyo-to, Japan

Joined July 2016

Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Aug 17, 2023
I can't beleive I'm starting a company.... with David Ha @hardmaru !! .... in Tokyo?! How did I get here.
hardmaru
@hardmaru
Aug 17, 2023
Personal Announcement! I’m launching @SakanaAILabs together with my friend, Llion Jones (@YesThisIsLion). sakana.ai is a new R&D-focused company based in Tokyo, Japan. We’re on a quest to create a new kind of foundation model based on nature-inspired intelligence!
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Oct 1, 2023
Here's a sentence I never thought I'd say... Why are all my robot Guinea pigs graduating? #DALLE3
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
May 12, 2025
Why not try something different? Instead of using the activations in a layer of a neural network as the representation, like we have forever. How about using the *synchronization* between neurons over time instead? The behavior that results is quite different! Please take a look!
Sakana AI
@SakanaAILabs
May 12, 2025
Introducing Continuous Thought Machines New Blog: sakana.ai/ctm/ Modern AI is powerful, but it’s still distinct from human-like flexible intelligence. We believe neural timing is key. Our Continuous Thought Machine is built from the ground up to use neural dynamics as
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Feb 13, 2025
凄い研究です。ご覧ください！
Takuya Akiba
@iwiwi
Feb 13, 2025
先日公開した小型言語モデル「TinySwallow-1.5B」の構築にも利用した、我々の新しい知識蒸留の手法「TAID」の論文がICLR’25でSpotlight (top 5%)を受賞しました！やった〜！
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
May 11, 2022
Replying to @nathanbenaich @AdeptAILabs and 11 others
oh, I'm the only one left?? hmmm Well I'm the one that contributed the most important part of the paper anyway...... the title (I'm sorry).
Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Mar 26, 2025
I had so much fun working on this project. Who is going to take the challenge? People are running around saying AGI is here because we solved ARC-AGI. This is ARC-AGI++++;the absolute best reasoning systems in the world can't even begin solving most of puzzles in the benchmark...
Sakana AI
@SakanaAILabs
Mar 21, 2025
Sakana AI super-powers AI reasoning using Japan’s own Sudoku Puzzles! Read more here → sakana.ai/sudoku-bench At @NVIDIAGTC, Llion Jones @YesThisIsLion announced the release of our new reasoning benchmark based on the modern variant Sudoku to challenge the AI community. We
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Sep 14, 2023
Replying to @jxmnop
As someone who worked with TF internally right from the start and watched its evolution I can give my opinion here. I believe that this short documentary will explain exactly what that core problem was: youtu.be/QrGrOK8oZG8?si…
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Nov 6, 2023
OMG, my t-shirt is now official Japanese news.
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Oct 20, 2022
Using Transformers to fix Japanese places name pronunciations in Google Maps by looking at neighbours :)
arxiv.org
Helpful Neighbors: Leveraging Neighbors in Geographic Feature Pronunciation
If one sees the place name Houston Mercer Dog Run in New York, how does one know how to pronounce it? Assuming one knows that Houston in New York is pronounced "how-ston" and not like the Texas...
Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Apr 4, 2025
My GTC talk is available, please take a look! It's worth a watch because it does take some time to explain why modern Sudoku such a good reasoning benchmark. 🐟
Sakana AI
@SakanaAILabs
Apr 3, 2025
Replying to @SakanaAILabs
Our #GTC25 talk “The Next Reasoning Benchmark” is available! “Sakana AI released a new reasoning benchmark. This benchmark is currently extremely hard, even for the best reasoning models. We believe that this will push AI progress forward.” @YesThisIsLion nvidia.com/en-us/on-deman…
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Jan 16, 2024
So exciting to see such a strong founding team come together! @SakanaAILabs
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Oct 5, 2023
100 nerd points to anyone who can FULLY explain the t-shirt I chose to wear on Japanese TV.
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Jan 29, 2025
I participated in the NEC @NEC_jp_pr Generative AI Live! event by joining a podcast with fellow Transformer co-author Łukasz Kaiser @lukaszkaiser along with distinguished NEC researchers and experts to discuss Gen AI. It was a fun chat, please take a look!
Sakana AI
@SakanaAILabs
Jan 29, 2025
AI研究のグローバルリーダーが語る「生成AIの進化と未来像」セミナー（NEC主催）に、Sakana AIのライオン・ジョーンズ（CTO）が出演し、Transformerの論文の共著者であるŁukasz KaiserやNECの優秀な研究者たちと生成AIについて議論しました。 jpn.nec.com/event/250127ai…
【アーカイブ配信中】NEC Generative AI Live!
From jpn.nec.com
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Llion Jones
@YesThisIsLion
Oct 18, 2024
C&C賞を受賞することになりました。とても光栄です！私たちはびっくりしたけど嬉しいです。本当にありがとうございます。 @ashVaswani @NoamShazeer @kyosu @nikiparmar09 @lukaszkaiser @aidangomez @ilblackdragon ご覧ください→ candc.or.jp/kensyo/2024/gr…
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