# Jakob Uszkoreit

> Jakob Uszkoreit is the co-founder and CEO of Inceptive and one of eight co-authors of the 2017 Transformer paper, Attention Is All You Need. His career includes Google Translate, building the language understanding team of Google Assistant, research at Google Brain, and collaborative work on Vision Transformer and MLP-Mixer.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Inceptive
- **Organizations:** Inceptive, Google, Google Brain
- **Nationality:** German
- **Education:** Master’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin
- **Known for:** One of eight equal-contribution co-authors of Attention Is All You Need (2017)., Built the Google Assistant language understanding team., Co-author of Image Transformer, Universal Transformers, Vision Transformer and MLP-Mixer.

## Career timeline

- **2005** — Described joining Google as an intern in a January 2023 interview; worked on machine translation.
- **2017** — Co-authored Attention Is All You Need; proposed replacing recurrent networks with self-attention and began evaluating the idea.
- **2018** — Co-authored Image Transformer and Universal Transformers.
- **2020** — Co-authored the initial Vision Transformer paper, An Image is Worth 16x16 Words.
- **2021** — Co-authored MLP-Mixer and co-founded Inceptive with Rhiju Das.
- **2024** — Spoke at TEDAI San Francisco about AI and the limits of human cognition.
- **2025** — Recognized with the Global AI Award in Davos in January.

## Achievements

- One of eight equal-contribution co-authors of Attention Is All You Need (2017).
- Built the Google Assistant language understanding team.
- Co-author of Image Transformer, Universal Transformers, Vision Transformer and MLP-Mixer.
- Co-founded Inceptive with Rhiju Das in 2021.
- Global AI Award recognition in January 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Inceptive’s current website continues to identify its 2021 founding and lists offices in Palo Alto, Berlin and Zurich.
- **2025-01** — Visited the ETH AI Center before traveling to Davos for the Global AI Award.

## Links

- Website: http://jakob.uszkoreit.net/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakob-uszkoreit-b238b51
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/kyosu

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