Niki Parmar, Transformer co-author, joins Anthropic technical staff
Niki Parmar, a co-author of the foundational "Attention Is All You Need" paper, has joined Anthropic as a member of its technical staff. Parmar, who previously co-founded Adept AI Labs and Essential AI, is now focusing on reinforcement learning research. Her work at Anthropic targets hard exploration tasks, frontier model capabilities, and test-time scaling. She has stated that her contributions…
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- Niki Parmar, co-author of the Transformer paper, joined Anthropic technical staff in December 2024.
- She previously co-founded Adept AI Labs and Essential AI with Ashish Vaswani.
- Parmar works on reinforcement learning and contributed to the development of Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
Parmar’s career began at Google Research, where she helped create the Transformer architecture that underpins modern large language models like GPT and BERT. Before joining Anthropic in December 2024, she served as CTO at Adept AI Labs, which focused on "action models" for enterprise automation. She later co-founded Essential AI in January 2023 with Ashish Vaswani to build full-stack AI products for business workflows. Her move to Anthropic follows a trend of senior technical leaders joining the company in research roles rather than executive positions.
The article highlights Parmar’s journey from studying in Pune, India, to becoming a key figure in global AI development. Her Google Scholar citation count exceeds 315,000, reflecting the wide influence of her research. Her current role involves refining the reasoning capabilities of systems built on the architecture she helped invent, continuing her work at the frontier of AI development.
Indians Leading AI Revolution: Niki Parmar, Co-founder, Essential AI & Adept AI Labs; Technical Staff, Anthropic
analyticsinsight.net · 30 September 2026
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