Amazon
publicAmazon's AI efforts span AWS AI services, the AGI division (formed 2023), and an $8B strategic investment in Anthropic. The AGI org was originally led by Rohit Prasad (former Alexa AI head), then reorganized under Peter DeSantis in December 2025, unifying AI, custom silicon (Trainium/Inferentia), and quantum computing.
The Nova model family launched at AWS re:Invent 2024 with multimodal Pro, Lite, and Micro tiers, followed by Nova Premier (April 2025, 1M context, AA index 19). Nova 2 (December 2025) added reasoning capabilities and Nova Act for browser-agent automation. Amazon also builds custom AI chips: Trainium2 (500K+ deployed) and Trainium3 (3nm, late 2025).
Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley, ACM Prize in Computing) joined in August 2024 via the Covariant acquisition to lead frontier model research. Proprietary.
People
- Pieter Abbeel Google ScholarOpenReview — VP & Distinguished Scientist (joined Aug 2024) (formerly UC Berkeley (Professor); Covariant (Co-founder); PhD Stanford (Andrew Ng))
- Peter DeSantis — SVP, AGI/Silicon/Quantum (from Dec 2025) (formerly Amazon (27 years; led EC2 launch, Annapurna Labs acquisition))
- Rohit Prasad Google Scholar — Former SVP & Head Scientist, AGI (departed Dec 2025)
News
- 2025-12-17 Peter DeSantis to Lead Unified AGI Org; Rohit Prasad Departing — CNBC
- 2025-12-02 Nova 2 Model Family and Nova Act GA at re:Invent 2025 — TechCrunch
- 2025-04-30 Nova Premier Launched as Amazon's Most Capable AI Model — TechCrunch
- 2025-04-08 Nova Sonic Speech-to-Speech Model Launched on Bedrock — AWS
- 2025-03-31 Amazon Unveils Nova Act, an AI Agent That Controls a Web Browser — TechCrunch
- 2024-12-03 AWS Trainium2 Chips Generally Available; Trainium3 Previewed — TechCrunch
- 2024-11-22 Amazon Doubles Anthropic Investment to $8 Billion — CNBC