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Amazon Hires Adept AI Startup Founders to Strengthen AGI Team

Jun 28, 2024, 08:32 PM

Amazon has hired the CEO and co-founders of Adept, an enterprise AI startup, to join its AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) team. This move is part of Amazon's broader strategy to enhance its AI capabilities. The tech giant is also licensing Adept's agent technology, a family of state-of-the-art multimodal models, and several datasets. The Adept co-founders and some of the team are joining Amazon’s AGI organization to continue pursuing the mission of building useful general intelligence. This acquisition is seen as a significant step in Amazon's pursuit of building useful general intelligence.