NVIDIA reportedly acquihires Essential AI team including Ashish Vaswani
The reported move would put one of the Transformer authors inside NVIDIA's Nemotron model group, but deal terms and timing remain unclear.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Aligned News - AI Intelligence
Why it matters
If confirmed, the move puts a Transformer author inside NVIDIA's model operation and shows how AI talent is consolidating around the compute platforms that fund frontier work.
Ashish Vaswani, the Essential AI co-founder and one of the authors of the Transformer paper, is reportedly moving to NVIDIA (@nvidia) as part of an acquihire of the Essential AI team into NVIDIA's Nemotron group.
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