Amazon has announced a new dedicated team, which forms what is called the ‘Amazon AGI SF Lab’, based in San Francisco, United States. The new team will work on developing highly capable AI agents that can ‘take actions in digital and physical worlds’.
“Our work will build on that of Amazon’s broader AGI team, which recently introduced Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs),” said Amazon in the official announcement.
Interestingly, this new lab will be ‘seeded’ by the team hired by Adept, an AI startup whose founders were lured into Amazon earlier this year.
Amazon also said that they’re keeping this team ‘lean’ to ensure each person receives a maximised amount of computing.
“Our initial focus is on several key research bets that will enable AI agents to perform real-world actions, learn from human feedback, self-course-correct, and infer our goals,” read the announcement.
Amazon also shared their excitement in ‘combining’ large language models …