Home / People / Ashish Vaswani
| Known as | Indian computer scientist |
|---|---|
| Roles | Co-founder, Essential AI Co-founder, Adept |
| Education | University of Southern California |
| Links | Wikipedia · essential.ai · adept.ai |
About Ashish Vaswani
Ashish Vaswani is a co-founder of Essential AI and a co-founder of Adept.
Essential AI: Founded by two Transformer paper authors; builds open models.
Across Essential AI and Adept, Ashish has helped build more than one of the companies AGIX tracks.
Ashish studied at University of Southern California.
Today Essential AI ranks #101 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 4 public models released in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Ashish is part of that story.
Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Ashish, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.