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Ashish Vaswani is an AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as the first-listed author of the paper that introduced the Transformer architecture. He co-founded Adept and Essential AI and joined NVIDIA with the Essential AI team in 2026.
Ashish Vaswani is an AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as the first-listed author of the paper that introduced the Transformer architecture. He co-founded Adept and Essential AI and joined NVIDIA with the Essential AI team in 2026.
Career
AI researcher at NVIDIA from 2026-06 to PresentJoined NVIDIA with the Essential AI team following its 2026 acquisition.
Co-founder and CEO at Essential AI from 2022-12 to 2026-06Co-founded and led an AI research company building open models and tools for deep-learning science and engineering.
Co-founder at Adept AI from 2021 to 2022Co-founded the AI-agent company before departing to establish Essential AI.
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind from 2016 to 2021Conducted machine-learning research and was the first-listed author of the paper introducing the Transformer architecture.