| Roles | Co-founder, Essential AI Co-founder, Adept |
|---|---|
| Links | essential.ai · adept.ai |
About Niki Parmar
Niki Parmar 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, Niki has helped build more than one of the companies AGIX tracks.
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 Niki is part of that story.
Facts from public company information; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Niki, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.