Amazon It has been reported that the company has recruited executives from Skilled AI For the company's artificial general intelligence (AGI) project.
Adept co-founder and CEO David Ruan said: Join Amazon's AGI Autonomy Bloomberg News reported the news on Friday (June 28), citing an internal company memo. According to the report, Adept's four co-founders, other The workers Also Join a team.
AGI is a type of artificial intelligence (AI), Think like a humanAccording to the memo, Amazon will help develop products that automate software workflows using Adept's technology development agents, AI tools that can perform tasks autonomously.
Bloomberg reported that Adept is looking to raise $350 million at a valuation of at least $1 billion in March 2023. The company announced the deal with Amazon in a blog post, both Developing the foundational AI models and enterprise tools “would have required a lot of attention to funding the foundational models, rather than delivering on the agent’s vision.”
Adept, along with the remaining staff, will continue to operate separately with a more product-focused mission, according to a memo to Amazon staff.
“David and his team's expertise in training cutting-edge multimodal foundational models and building real-world digital agents aligns with our vision to delight consumers and enterprise customers with practical AI solutions.” Rohit Prasad“We are excited about the opportunity to develop a platform that will enable AI to be more intelligent,” the head of Amazon's AI autonomy team wrote in the memo.
As we covered here earlier this month, AI Agents They are beginning to attract the attention of technology investors, sparking a wave of funding for the startups building them.
A CNBC report at the time noted that this surge in investment was a testament to the potential for AI agents to disrupt industries and create new opportunities by automating complex tasks and allowing users to delegate responsibilities.
News of Amazon's adoption of the technology comes days after the company's market valuation fell. Exceeds $2 trillion First time leading a milestone To some extent Investor interest in AI has made Amazon the fifth company to be valued at more than $2 trillion, joining Apple, Google, Nvidia and Microsoft.
Amazon's involvement in the AI space includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's largest cloud computing services provider. The tech giant has also invested in AI startup Anthropic and robotics company Figure.
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