logo
episode-header-image
Jul 17
47 m

The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of M...

IHEARTPODCASTS AND PUSHKIN INDUSTRIES
About this episode

Jakob Uszkoreit is the CEO and co-founder of Inceptive, a biotech start-up. He’s also a co-author of “Attention is All You Need,” the paper that created transformer models. Today, transformers power chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. They’ve also led to breakthroughs in everything from generating images to predicting the structure of proteins.

On today’s show, Jakob talks about the invention of transformer models. And he discusses how he’s using those models to try to invent new kinds of medicine, with a particular focus on RNA.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Up next
Aug 21
Inventing a Better Pain Pill
Dr. Stephen Waxman is a professor of neurology, neuroscience and pharmacology at Yale. His research on pain helped pave the way for a newly approved, non-addictive pain drug called suzetrigine. On today’s show, he explains why he thinks suzetrigine is a promising step, but why mu ... Show More
32m 18s
Aug 14
Mapping the Unmappable
Philipp Kandal is the chief product officer of Grab, an app that serves several countries across Southeast Asia. Two of Grab’s main businesses are delivery and mobility – like a combination between Instacart and Uber. And maps are at the core of its business. On today’s show, Phi ... Show More
35m 54s
Aug 7
Reinventing Blood
Dr. Allan Doctor is the co-founder and chief scientific officer at Kalocyte, a company that is developing dried red blood cells that can be rehydrated and used in medical emergencies. On today’s show, Dr. Doctor explains the complex science behind artificial blood, and how this i ... Show More
35m 45s
Recommended Episodes
Feb 2024
Biotech Special: a16z and the Biotech Revolution with Vijay Pande
There is a revolution unfolding in biotech. The confluence of new biological methods like CRISPR, virtually unlimited computational capacity, and machine learning has fundamentally transformed our ability to engineer biology for wide-ranging applications. Andreessen Horowitz, or ... Show More
57m 1s
Aug 2024
Elon Musk's Grok AI Model Adds Image Generation FLUX
In this episode, we take a closer look at Elon Musk's AI research company, Grok, and its latest development: the addition of an image generation capability called FLUX to its AI model. We discuss the potential implications of this advancement, which combines text and image ge ... Show More
18m 15s
Jan 2025
How AI and the Cloud are Radically Transforming Business
Tom Koulopoulos discusses his book The Bottomless Cloud and how AI and the Cloud are radically transforming the way we do business. Tom compares today’s digital revolution to the industrial revolution and the advent of electric power. He says that the abundance of data is fueling ... Show More
22m 18s
Aug 2023
AI Superpowers for Frontend Developers, with Vercel Founder/CEO Guillermo Rauch
Everything digital is increasingly intermediated through web user experiences, and now AI development can be frontend-first, too. Just ask Guillermo Rauch, the founder and CEO of Vercel, the company behind Next.js. In this episode of No Priors, hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil speak ... Show More
38m 13s
Feb 2025
Understanding AI’s Expanding Role in Drug Discovery and Life Sciences R&D - Liran Belenzon of BenchSci
Today’s guest is Liran Belenzon, Co-founder and CEO of BenchSci. BenchSci is a global leader in AI solutions for preclinical R&D that helps decipher complex biomedical research using proprietary technology. Liran joins us to discuss how AI is transforming disease biology research ... Show More
19m 3s
Jul 31
The Future of Humans, AI and Intelligent Technologies
Dr. Ja-Naé Duane talks about her book, coauthored with futurist Steve Fisher, SuperShifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, and Work in the Age of Intelligence. Ja-Naé is a leading behavioral scientist, an MIT research fellow, and an innovation strategist with deep expertise in e ... Show More
28m 2s
Oct 2024
Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI
In this conversation with a16z general partner David George, Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang discusses the three pillars of AI—models, compute, and data—and how creating abundant data is core to the evolution of gen AI. With Scale’s work across enterprise, automotive, and ... Show More
35m 8s
Aug 2024
Recursion CEO Chris Gibson on Accelerating the Biopharmaceutical Industry With AI - Ep. 230
Techbio is a field combining data, technology and biology to enhance scientific processes — and AI has the potential to supercharge the biopharmaceutical industry further. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz speaks with Chris Gibson, cofounder and CEO of Rec ... Show More
37m 55s
Jul 7
Training for Change in the Age of AI, with Microsoft’s Miki Tsusaka
We want to hear from you! Email us at BCGInHerEllement@bcg.com with a voice memo describing your In Your Ellement moment. We might feature your story in an upcoming episode!***What do you do when a dream opportunity arrives at an inopportune time?For Miki Tsusaka, it called for s ... Show More
27m 13s
Jun 2024
Product-Led AI: Mustafa Suleyman on Defining Intelligence
Guest episode of Product-Led AI, hosted by Greylock partner Seth Rosenberg. In this episode, he speaks with AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman, who has been at the forefront of the technology through several major leaps forward. As the co-founder of DeepMind, Google’s VP of AI Policy an ... Show More
35m 11s