AI startup co-founded by Transformer first author Ashish Vaswani. Vaswani's LinkedIn profile shows his Essential AI role ending in June 2026 and a new NVIDIA computer-scientist role beginning the same month, consistent with an NVIDIA acqui-hire.
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NVIDIA senior research scientist and former Essential AI member of technical staff.
June 29, 2026person_addedSaurabh Srivastava added to the databaseNVIDIA Nemotron principal scientist and former Essential AI code-intelligence research lead.
June 29, 2026m_and_aNVIDIA appears to acqui-hire Essential AIAshish Vaswani and other Essential AI researchers now list NVIDIA roles, pointing to an NVIDIA acqui-hire of the open-model startup.
June 29, 2026
