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Essential AI

An AI research company behind the Rnj-1 open models and research infrastructure.

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At a glance

Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, US
Category
Open-weight models · coding · AI research

Founders in the archive

Ashish VaswaniNiki Parmar

Funding

2 recorded financing entries

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Origins & connections

Founded by Transformer co-authors Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar after their work at Google.

On the timeline

2023Essential AI is founded2025-12-05Essential AI releases Rnj-1
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