Ashish Vaswani is the founder of Essential AI. Essential AI has raised $65M in total funding. Latest round: Series A. Backed by Nvidia, AMD, Google.
Ashish Vaswani is an Indian computer scientist and entrepreneur, recognized for co-authoring the influential 'Attention Is All You Need' paper which introduced the Transformer architecture. He previously worked at Google Brain before co-founding Essential AI, where he served as Co-founder and CEO. Essential AI and Vaswani were acqui-hired by Nvidia in June 2026.
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