AGI Strategies

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 capability

Position 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.”
§ paperAttention Is All You Need· arXiv / NeurIPS· 2017-06· direct quote

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Ashish Vaswani's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Aditya Ramesh

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    OpenAI DALL·E creator

  • Albert Gu

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CMU; Mamba and structured state-space models

  • Alec Radford

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    OpenAI; lead author of GPT, Whisper, CLIP

  • Brian Chau

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Executive Director of Alliance for the Future

  • Charlie Snell

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    UC Berkeley; LLM efficiency and inference compute

  • David Luan

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Amazon; ex-Adept co-founder

Record last updated 2026-04-25.