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ATTENTION IS ALL HE NEEDED

By Zimbo · October 6, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Six-panel Ashish Vaswani strip. 2002: BIT Mesra B.Tech, plane to America. USC PhD, 2014 translation thesis. 2016-2021: Google Brain. 2017: first author of 'Attention Is All You Need' with Niki Parmar. 2022: Adept AI, then Essential AI. Kicker lookout: 'He wrote Attention. Then he left to use it.'
Ashish Vaswani wrote the most consequential AI paper in history — 'Attention Is All You Need' — at Google Brain, then left to co-found Adept, walked out of that too, and started Essential AI with Niki Parmar to aim attention at humanity's biggest problems. The life of the Transformer guy, in six panels.Zimbo for AI News Page
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