Amazon appointed Peter DeSantis, a 30-year veteran and AWS senior vice president, to lead a new division overseeing AI models, chips, and quantum computing. This leadership change coincided with the departure of Rohit Prasad, the current head of AGI, who previously led the Alexa team and the recent launch of the Nova models. Additionally, the company named AI researcher Pieter Abbeel to lead its frontier model research team, as CEO Andy Jassy described the unit as reaching an inflection point.
