Amazon.com Inc. is reorganizing teams working on artificial intelligence projects, putting a top leader from the company’s cloud division in charge of a new unit.
Peter DeSantis will lead the new group, Amazon Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said Wednesday in a message to employees, which was also posted on the company’s corporate blog. The new organization will combine Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence team — which oversees the company’s Nova-branded AI models and the digital brains of the Alexa voice assistant — with Amazon’s chipmaking unit and quantum computing research.
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