Amazon to reshuffles AI leadership, puts Peter DeSantis in charge of AGI

Key Highlights: There’s a big leadership shakeup about to happen inside Amazon’s artificial intelligence team. Yesterday, the company’s CEO, Andy Jassy yesterday announced that Rohit Prasad, the head of artificial general intelligence (AGI), will leave Amazon next year. Jassy describes the moment as an “inflection point” for its AI goals. Rohit Prasad has been the man behind Amazon’s AI efforts For those unaware, Prasad has been with Amazon since 2013. Ever since AI came onto the scene, he has been the man behind Amazon’s AI efforts. To give you an example, Alexa went mainstream as a popular voice assistant under […]