Amazon Restructures AI Leadership: Rohit Prasad Departs, Peter DeSantis Takes Over Advanced AI Division
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Summary
Amazon is restructuring its AI leadership as Rohit Prasad, head of artificial general intelligence (AGI), leaves the company. CEO Andy Jassy announced that Peter DeSantis, a senior vice president at Amazon Web Services, will lead a new division focused on advanced AI models, chip development, and quantum computing. Prasad played a key role in developing Alexa and launching Amazon's Nova AI models. The change comes as Amazon reaches an 'inflection point' in its AI development and seeks to compete more effectively in the AI race.
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Peter DeSantis, a senior vice president at Amazon Web Services, will helm a new division focused on the company's most advanced AI models, chip development, and quantum computing
Prasad joined Amazon in 2013 and played a key role in the evolution of the company's voice assistant Alexa
He also oversaw the launch of the Amazon Nova AI models and later became the head of AGI
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