"Two weeks after their announcement of Nova 2 models at AWS re:Invent ("where hope goes to the desert to die"), SVP of Utility Computing Peter DeSantis is taking two of his teams from AWS, putting them into SVP of Doesn't-Work-At-Amazon-As-Of-Next-Month Rohit Prasad's old org, and managing the whole thing as a cohesive unit called "AGI." This unit will report directly to Andy Jassy, Amazon's Lead Product Marketer for GenAI (and also CEO)."
"The two things Peter's taking along with him are the reworked Annapurna Labs business that makes AWS's silicon chips (Nitro, Graviton, Trainium, and Inferentia), and their quantum computing business, about which companies are very excited but utterly unable to communicate effectively to anyone who's not spent at least four years in a Ph.D. program at Berkeley. You have to unpack a bit of history and ad some context to make sense of the rest of it, since this is a very Amazonian announcement."
Amazon created a new AGI unit that consolidates AI-related compute efforts across the company and reports directly to CEO Andy Jassy. Peter DeSantis will move from SVP of Utility Computing to lead the unit, bringing Annapurna Labs' silicon teams (Nitro, Graviton, Trainium, Inferentia) and the quantum computing business under his management. The change signals that AI infrastructure and advanced compute are strategic, company-wide priorities rather than AWS-only capabilities. The move expands DeSantis's scope and visibility while aligning chip development, quantum research, and AGI initiatives to serve multiple Amazon divisions such as Alexa, Prime Video, Twitch, Zoox, and Ads.
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