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Ashish Vaswani

Transformer co-author; foundational modern NLP architecture

Industry research (affiliations evolve) · formerly Google

Ashish Vaswanitransformer paperattention is all you need author
Quick profileAshish Vaswani ranks #58 on the AGI Times 100 (2026) — public researchers, engineers, and builders ranked by influence. Not an intelligence test.

Ashish Vaswani ranks #58 on the AGI Times 100 (2026) as a public figure whose work shaped how AI is researched, engineered, or deployed. Transformer co-author; foundational modern NLP architecture.

Associated primarily with Industry research (affiliations evolve) · formerly Google, Vaswani is known for: Attention Is All You Need lead author credit; Modern LLM architecture foundation; Public research impact. Those threads generate the search demand we map in the keyword doors on this page — name queries, lab queries, and the breakthrough phrases people type after a news cycle.

Influence, on our methodology, is not a personality contest. It is the combination of ideas others reuse, systems others ship on top of, institutions that allocate talent and capital, and public conversation that changes what builders and buyers do next.

Citations below point to primary papers, lab pages, or reputable public sources. Affiliations change. Use this profile as a map for learning and due diligence — then train your team to apply modern AI tools with clear ownership, privacy rules, and human review.

Known for

  • Attention Is All You Need lead author credit
  • Modern LLM architecture foundation
  • Public research impact

Citations & further reading

Why operators careLead author search intent for the most important AI paper of the 2010s.