Amazon has recently experienced significant personnel upheaval. According to IT之家, citing Business Insider, Rohit Prasad, the senior vice president and chief scientist responsible for Amazon's cutting-edge AI model development, has confirmed that he will leave the company by the end of the year. As a key executive reporting directly to CEO Andy Jassy, Prasad was tasked two years ago with establishing the General Artificial Intelligence (AGI) division, with high expectations of leading Amazon back to the forefront of AI.
During his tenure, Amazon launched the widely watched Nova series of models, covering areas such as speech recognition, video generation, and intelligent agents. Although the Nova series has gained some market recognition in terms of cost and efficiency, its overall performance still cannot challenge the dominance of top products like OpenAI's GPT series or Google's Gemini. This "follower" pressure is widely seen as the main background behind this executive's departure.
To reverse the situation, Amazon announced that a larger new department will be established under the leadership of Peter DeSanti, the senior vice president of AWS. This new team will not only oversee AGI development but also integrate silicon chip and quantum computing businesses, aiming for a full-stack breakthrough from hardware to underlying algorithms. At the same time, Peter Abey will take over the frontier model research team. In the face of the intensifying AI competition, Amazon is trying to regain its competitive edge in the second half of the general artificial intelligence race through frequent personnel reorganization and structural adjustments.
Key Points:
📉 Key Executive Leaving: The head of Amazon's AGI team, Prasad, has announced that he will leave at the end of the year, having led the development of the Nova series of models during his tenure.
⚔️ Intense Competition: Although the Nova model performs well in efficiency, it still lags significantly behind top competitors like GPT and Claude in terms of model performance.
🏗️ Organizational Restructuring: Amazon has integrated AGI, chip, and quantum computing businesses into a new department, which will be led by an AWS executive to strengthen the synergy between computing power and algorithms.
