Amazon AI Chief Rohit Prasad to Leave as Andy Jassy Puts AWS Veteran Peter DeSantis in Charge of AGI, Nova Models, Chips and Quantum
Amazon named Peter DeSantis to lead a new organization uniting its AI model, custom silicon, and quantum computing efforts, reporting directly to CEO Andy Jassy. Rohit Prasad, head of Amazon’s AGI group and a key Alexa architect, will leave at the end of 2025. Pieter Abbeel will lead the frontier model research team within the AGI organization.