Overview
- CEO Andy Jassy appointed 27-year Amazon executive Peter DeSantis to oversee a consolidated organization spanning AI models, custom chip development and quantum computing, reporting directly to him.
- The new structure unites Nova and the AGI team with silicon programs including Graviton, Trainium and Nitro to enable end-to-end co-design across models, hardware and cloud software.
- AI researcher Pieter Abbeel will head frontier model research within AGI and will continue his work with Amazon’s robotics efforts.
- Rohit Prasad, who helped build Alexa and led the Nova/AGI program to deliver a dozen foundation models used by tens of thousands of companies, will depart at year-end.
- The leadership shift accompanies substantial AI bets, including Amazon’s $8 billion investment in Anthropic, an AWS pledge of $50 billion for U.S. government AI infrastructure, and reported talks about a $10 billion investment in OpenAI.