person
Ashish Vaswani
Co-founder Essential AI; lead author of 'Attention Is All You Need'
Co-founder of Essential AI; lead author of the 2017 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced the Transformer architecture, the foundation of modern LLMs.
current Co-founder, Essential AI
past Co-founder, Adept AI; Research Scientist, Google Brain
Strategy positions
Accelerationendorsestentative
Build faster; delay costs more than capabilityPosition inferred from career trajectory (Transformer architect, Essential AI co-founder building frontier tooling); no public position statement on AI strategy is on record. Quote below is from the Transformer paper, which is technical, not strategic.
“We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.