Amazon has a new leader for its ‘AGI’ group as it plays catch-up on AI

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

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

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