Andy Jassy appoints AWS executive Peter Desantis to a new position unifying AI models, chip development and quantum computing as AI head Rohit Prasad leaves.

CEO Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant will tap senior cloud infrastructure executive Peter DeSantis to lead a newly formed organization overseeing the company's most advanced AI models, including Nova and its AGI team,

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.

Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad is leaving at year’s end, according to a memo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Peter DeSantis, a 27-year veteran who has led AWS infrastructure, will oversee a new organization combining AI, silicon, and quantum computing. Read More