Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship 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…