Amazon Has A New Leader For Its ‘agi’ Group As It Plays Catch-up On Ai

Amazon's caput of artificial wide intelligence (AGI), Rohit Prasad, is leaving nan institution adjacent twelvemonth arsenic it reaches an "inflection point" successful its improvement of nan technology, CEO Andy Jassy announced connected Wednesday. As portion of nan change, Peter DeSantis, a elder vice president astatine Amazon Web Services, will helm a caller section focused connected nan company's astir precocious AI models, spot development, and quantum computing.

Prasad joined Amazon successful 2013 and played a cardinal domiciled successful nan improvement of nan company's sound adjunct Alexa. He besides oversaw nan motorboat of nan Amazon Nova AI models and later became nan caput of nan AGI squad successful 2023. While nan othe …

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