Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcefuturism.com · Opens in a new tabFuturism, citing a Bloomberg report, says Amazon is scaling back most of its Nova AI models, including text, video, and image models, placing them in a 'keep the lights on' state with minimal resources. Labor and computing power are being redirected to a single 'frontier-model effort' led by Pieter Abbeel, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, whose company Covariant Amazon acquired in 2024. The article also notes the closure of an 80-person San Francisco AGI research office a week earlier.
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Futurism, citing a Bloomberg report, says Amazon is scaling back most of its Nova AI models, including text, video, and image models, placing them in a 'keep the lights on' state with minimal resources. Labor and computing power are being redirected to a single 'frontier-model effort' led by Pieter Abbeel, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, whose company Covariant Amazon acquired in 2024. The article also notes the closure of an 80-person San Francisco AGI research office a week earlier.
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- Amazon is placing most Nova models, including text, video, and image models, in a 'keep the lights on' state.
- Resources are being redirected to a single 'frontier-model effort' led by Pieter Abbeel.
- Amazon closed an 80-person San Francisco office focused on artificial general intelligence research a week earlier.
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