Overview
- Andy Jassy’s memo creates a single organization for Nova/AGI models, custom silicon programs like Graviton, Trainium and Nitro, plus quantum computing.
- Peter DeSantis, a 27-year Amazon veteran who led AWS infrastructure and Utility Computing, will report directly to the CEO in the new role.
- Pieter Abbeel will head frontier model research within AGI, with continued involvement in Amazon’s robotics work.
- Rohit Prasad, who helped build Alexa and led the Nova model effort, will leave the company at the end of the year.
- Amazon cites the recent Nova 2 launch at re:Invent and the advantages of end-to-end optimization, as media also note its $8 billion Anthropic investment and reported talks about an OpenAI stake.