No Priors Ep. 29 | With Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit

"Biological Software" is the future of medicine. Jakob Uszkoreit, CEO and Co-founder of Inceptive, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors, to discuss how deep learning is expanding the horizons of RNA and mRNA therapeutics. Jakob co-authored the revolutionary paper Attention is All You Need while at Google, and led early Google Translate and Google Assistant teams. Now at Inceptive, he's applying these same architectures and ideas to biological design, optimizing vaccine production, and magnitude-more efficient drug discovery. We also discuss Jakob's perspective on promising research directions, and his point of view that model architectures will actually get simpler from here, and be driven by hardware. 00:00 - Creating Biological Software 06:54 - The Hardware Drivers of Large-Scale Transformers 14:32 - Challenges in Optimizing Compute Allocation 23:25 - Deep Learning in Biology and RNA 32:49 - The Future of Drug Discovery 41:41 - Collaboration and Innovation at Inceptive