Andy Jassy Taps Peter DeSantis to Unify Amazon’s AI Models, Chips, and Quantum

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has appointed longtime AWS executive Peter DeSantis to lead a newly formed AI-focused organization. The new group will bring together Amazon’s frontier AI model efforts (including Nova and the team previously referred to internally as “AGI”), custom silicon development (such as Trainium and Graviton), and quantum computing—aimed at tighter optimization across models, chips, and cloud infrastructure to accelerate enterprise AI innovation.

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