← Back to PeopleFounderLlion JonesCo-founder at Sakana AI@YesThisIsLionCo-founder and CTO of Sakana AI2Mentions2Articles2OutletsNov 2025 — May 2026CoverageAssociated TopicsAI Startups1AI Investment1Foundation Models1Generative AI1Companies CoveredSakana AI2Hugging Face1NVIDIA1Coverage PatternsHow media typically covers Llion JonesArticle Typesnews1Media Anglesbusiness1Narrative Framingbreakthrough1Appears InGitHub1Nikkei Asia1ArticlesMost recent firstMentioned InReferenced in coverageNVIDIA-backed sparsity trick makes LLM training and inference 20% faster on H100sGitHubpositiveMay 11, 2026“Co-author of research on sparse transformer models and optimization techniques.”