AI BriefingNvidia Acquihires Essential AI Team
·2026.06.24 04:50
Key point
Nvidia has acquihired Ashish Vaswani, co-author of the Transformer paper, along with the Essential AI team.
Details
News has come out that Nvidia has acquihired Ashish Vaswani, founder and CEO of Essential AI, along with key team members.
Vaswani is well known as a co-author of the Transformer paper, and through this acquisition he is expected to join development of Nvidia's open source model, Nemotron.
This decision reportedly involves the following background:
- Funding challenges: Essential AI had recently been struggling to raise investment
- Checking a competitor: AMD had been an early strategic investor in Essential AI, supplying GPUs, but by securing this talent, Nvidia achieved the effect of weakening the influence of its competitor AMD
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