Amazon hires execs from AI startup Adept and licenses its technology

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hires execs from AI startup Adept and licenses its technology

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office is pictured in New York, May 1, 2019.

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is ramping up its development of artificial intelligence technology, hiring top talent from AI agent startup Adept and licensing the company’s technology.

Rohit Prasad, a senior vice president and head scientist who oversees

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’s artificial general intelligence unit, wrote in a memo to employees on Friday that the company hired Adept co-founder and CEO David Luan and “a few other deeply talented team members to our AGI team.”

Luan will oversee

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’s “AGI Autonomy” division, and report to Prasad, he wrote in the memo, which CNBC obtained.

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confirmed the contents of the memo.

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was first to report on it.

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faces fierce competition in AI, as rivals

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and

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rapidly add new features into their core products while also giving businesses more ways to access large language models in their public cloud offerings.

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’s cloud unit has launched a range of AI services, including its own models, which are generally viewed as lagging behind the top competitors.

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has also pumped billions of dollars into OpenAI competitor Anthropic, and it’s planning to overhaul its Alexa voice assistant with a new paid version that has generative AI capabilities. Prasad, who previously served as a head scientist for Alexa, was tapped in August to steer

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’s development of AGI, or software that’s significantly more advanced than current AI and starts to approach human-level capabilities.

Last month,

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announced Adam Selipsky, the head of

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Web Services, would be stepping down and succeeded by Matt Garman, the head of sales at marketing at AWS.

Talent wars are heating up across the industry.

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in March hired Mustafa Suleyman, a cofounder of

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’s DeepMind who went on to lead startup Inflection AI.

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also brought on several of Inflection’s top executives and

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some of its technology. The arrangement caught the attention of the Federal Trade Commission, which is probing whether

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structured the deal to avoid antitrust review,

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reported.

Adept was founded in 2022 by a group of former OpenAI and

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engineers. The company quickly attracted the backing of

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and Nvidia and was valued at more than $1 billion in early 2023.

Adept is a player in the burgeoning space of AI agents, which refers to AI tools that are equipped to complete complex tasks without human assistance. The startup

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an agent that can perform actions on a computer on the user’s behalf, like navigating webpages and logging data.

As part of Friday’s agreement,

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will license Adept’s technology, multimodal models and some datasets, which “will accelerate our roadmap for building digital agents that can automate software workflows,” Prasad wrote.

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is using the technology under a non-exclusive license, the company said.

“David and his team’s expertise in training state-of-the-art multimodal foundational models and building real-world digital agents aligns with our vision to delight consumer and enterprise customers with practical AI solutions,” Prasad said.

Adept confirmed the move

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. The company noted that developing its own AI models would’ve required more capital, and said the

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deal will allow it to focus on building agents. Adept will continue to operate as a standalone company after Luan and other execs join

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