Editing Ashish Vaswani (section)

== Career ==

After completing his Ph.D., Vaswani joined Google Brain, where he worked as a research scientist for more than six years. At Google, he contributed to advancements in natural language processing and deep learning.

In 2017, while at Google Brain, Vaswani led the team that published "Attention Is All You Need." The paper proposed replacing recurrent and convolutional layers with a purely attention-based mechanism, enabling greater parallelism, faster training, and superior performance on sequence transduction tasks such as machine translation.

In 2021–2022, Vaswani co-founded Adept AI with Niki Parmar and other colleagues, focusing on training neural networks to perform practical tasks and actions. He served as Co-Founder and Chief Scientist.

In late 2022/early 2023, Vaswani and Parmar left Adept to found Essential AI. As CEO, Vaswani leads the company in developing frontier AI models with an emphasis on openness, collaboration, and solving humanity's biggest challenges through advanced reasoning systems. Essential AI has raised significant funding and collaborates on hardware platforms such as AMD Instinct GPUs.