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Ashish Vaswani
Lead author of 'Attention Is All You Need'.
🇺🇸United StatesCo-founder & CEO, Essential AI
First author on the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer — the architecture underneath essentially every model on this site.
Known for
Transformer architecture
3 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 2023–now3 yrsEssential AICo-founder & CEO
- 2022–20231 yrAdept AICo-founder
- 2016–20215 yrsGoogle BrainResearch Scientist
0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first
No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.
LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.
Worked alongsideco-founders and close collaborators
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