Illia Polosukhin has a track record of shaping the future of technology. As a member of the team that published the landmark 2017 AI paper 'Attention is All you Need', he’s one of the co-creators of the transformer model — the type of AI architecture that powers generative AI systems like ChatGPT (the “T” stands for transformer).
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Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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