Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models
Peter DeSantis, Amazon's SVP of Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, and Quantum Computing Bloomberg/Getty Images Amazon is winding down most of its Nova in-house AI models. Amazon's AGI team was hit by layoffs. SVP Peter DeSantis wants to narrow the company's AI strategy. Amazon is overhauling its AI strategy, winding down many in-house models, reorganizing teams, and focusing engineers on a new strategy to compete at the frontier, according to people familiar with the matter. The changes follow layoffs in Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI , organization last week and the shutdown of AGI Lab, a research group it created in 2024 after hiring most of the team behind AI startup Adept. The restructuring suggests Amazon is refocusing its AI strategy. Rather than investing across a number of text, image, and video models, the company is concentrating engineering talent and scarce computing resources on its highest priorities. "KTLO" Amazon has be...
