Amazon appoints AWS longtime Peter DeSantis to lead AI org

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced in a message to employees on Wednesday that AWS CEO Peter DeSantis will lead a new organization focused on AI within the company.

The agency will be responsible for Amazon AI models like Novaas well as the development of silicon and quantum computing, which enable the creation of AI tools faster and more efficiently.

DeSantis has spent 27 years at Amazon, including eight years as SVP of AWS, the cloud power provider. about a third about the internet. In AWS soon re: Invent In that event, Amazon strengthened its commitment to AI for business use, so it makes sense that the company is creating a new team from AWS leadership.

“With our Nova 2 models just launched at re:Invent, our rapidly growing silicon, and the benefits of flavoring all types, chips, and cloud applications and infrastructure, we wanted to free Peter to focus on his strengths, practices, and leadership in these new areas,” Jassy wrote.

Amazon’s increased emphasis on AI comes at a time when the company is keen to boost the AI ​​competition, perhaps through financials rather than product. Last month, AWS he announced $50 billion in US government investment in AI. Amazon is also reportedly in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, and has already done so he put $8 billion in OpenAI Anthropic competition.