Nvidia acquires Essential AI team including Transformer coauthor Ashish Vaswani
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Sharon Goldman
Summary
Nvidia has quietly acquired the team from Essential AI, including founder and CEO Ashish Vaswani (coauthor of the influential Transformer paper). Vaswani will work on Nvidia's Nemotron open-source models. The acquisition was partly motivated by taking talent away from AMD, which was an early strategic investor in Essential AI and whose GPUs the startup relied on. This continues Nvidia's pattern of talent acquisitions to bolster its AI research and software efforts.
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Twitter / XNvidia acquires Essential AI team including Transformer coauthor Ashish Vaswanigroundlevel-ai.comKey quotes
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