Amazon Names New AI Chief Amid Battle to Take on Tech Rivals

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Amazon:Amazon.com Inc. is reorganizing teams working on artificial intelligence projects, putting a top leader from the company’s cloud division in charge of a new unit. Peter DeSantis will lead the new group, Amazon Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said Wednesday in a message to employees, which was also posted on the company’s corporate blog. The new organization will combine Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence team — which oversees the company’s Nova-branded AI models and the digital brains of the Alexa voice assistant — with Amazon’s chipmaking unit and quantum computing research.