Ashish Vaswani: The Lead Author Behind the Transformer

Ashish Vaswani — Lead author of the Transformer paper that reshaped modern AI. Key achievements:

• Lead author of 'Attention Is All You Need' (2017), introducing the Transformer
• Conducted the foundational Transformer research at Google Brain
• Co-founded Adept AI Labs (2021)
• Co-founded Essential AI (2023) and serves as CEO
• Work forms the architectural basis for BERT, GPT and modern LLMs

Read more: Attention Is All You Need (arXiv) · Essential AI