Amazon’s AGI lab head leaves

After less than two years at Amazon, David Luan, head of Amazon’s AI lab in San Francisco, is leaving the company. Luan announced the update In a post on LinkedIn on Tuesday, saying, “I’m leaving Amazon this weekend to cook something new.” He added, “There is great work to be done at Amazon and there are opportunities for me to take on more areas. But with AGI approaching this level, I decided to spend 100% of my time teaching completely new capabilities for AI systems.”

The loss of a senior AI developer at Amazon comes as the company struggles to keep up in the AI ​​race; Its employees even connect to its internal AI products “Amazon Basics.” Just a few weeks ago, Amazon I introduced Alexa Plusa renewed artificial intelligence assistant, for all users in the United States, although some of them Early adopters They said they would prefer to stick with the original Alexa.

Luan joined Amazon in 2024 with other employees from his startup Adept, which was developing AI agent technology that Amazon licensed. While at Amazon, Luann worked on this New artificial intelligence modelsincluding the Nova Act AI agent, which It was launched as a research preview In March. Act can complete web searches, make purchases, and answer questions, and Amazon said at the time of its launch that Act was already in use in Alexa Plus.