Amazon’s desire to boost its capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence is evidenced by a new corporate deal: executives and part of the team at San Francisco-based startup Adept will move to Amazon’s AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) division.
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Joining the tech giant’s team will be Adept co-founder and CEO David Luan (who was once OpenAI’s VP of engineering) and co-founders Augustus Odena, Maxwell Nye, Erich Elsen and Kelsey Schot.
They will replace Rohit Prasad, the leader of Amazon’s new artificial general intelligence (AGI) team, writes GeekWire.
“David and his team’s experience in training modern multimodal core models and creating real-world digital agents aligns with our mission to delight consumers and enterprise customers with practical AI solutions,” Prasad quotes the portal.
Adept will continue to operate as an independent company with remaining employees. But Amazon will use some of Adept’s technology under a non-exclusive license.
“Our products will continue to be based on a combination of our existing state-of-the-art proprietary models. [искусственного интеллекта]agent data, web interaction software and user infrastructure,” according to a statement on Adept’s official blog.
Adept is developing AI agents – artificial intelligence-based programs that automate specific work processes (including basic ones: document analysis, sending letters, etc.).
The developer raised $350 million in a Series B round in March 2023, valuing the company at $1 billion.
In recent months, Adept has been in talks with other tech giants such as Meta and Microsoft, which previously invested in the startup, about acquiring the company or other financial deals.
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