Ashish Vaswani
Ashish Vaswani is an Indian computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded and serves as CEO of Essential AI, a San Francisco-based AI research company founded in 2023. He previously worked as a staff research scientist at Google Brain from 2016 to 2021, where he was a co-author of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer neural network architecture. He also co-founded Adept AI prior to launching Essential AI with Niki Parmar. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
“You had someone like Noam Shazeer and Ashish Vaswani and kind of the rest of the folks that invented transformers.”
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