Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models
Amazon is restructuring its AI division, winding down several in-house Nova models to focus resources on a new 'frontier' model initiative. This shift follows recent layoffs and a reorganization of the company's AGI research teams.
Why it matters
It signals a strategic pivot by a major tech player to consolidate resources in the highly competitive race for advanced AI foundation models.
Peter DeSantis, Amazon's SVP of Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, and Quantum Computing Bloomberg/Getty Images Amazon is winding down most of its Nova in-house AI models. Amazon's AGI team was hit by layoffs. SVP Peter DeSantis wants to narrow the company's AI strategy. Amazon is overhauling its AI strategy, winding down many in-house models, reorganizing teams, and focusing engineers on a new strategy to compete at the frontier, according to people familiar with the matter. The changes follow layoffs in Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI , organization last week and the shutdown of AGI Lab, a research group it created in 2024 after hiring most of the team behind AI startup Adept. The restructuring suggests Amazon is refocusing its AI strategy. Rather than investing across a number of text, image, and video models, the company is concentrating engineering talent and scarce computing resources on its highest priorities.
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