Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

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Ashish Vaswani

Researcher

First author of the 2017 transformer paper. Founded Essential AI in 2023; the team was acquihired by Nvidia in June 2026, where he works on Nemotron open models.

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Works in

  1. Jun 2026 – now
    NVIDIA, Nemotron open models
    Sources Ashish Vaswani Wikipedia 2026-09-04
  2. 2023 – Jun 2026
    Essential AI, Co-founder and CEO
    Sources Ashish Vaswani Wikipedia 2026-09-04