Amazon's AGI boss gave tips for how junior people could climb the ranks in frontier AI in three to four years.

Earlier on Friday, Amazon's head scientist, Rohit Prasad, told employees that the company has hired David Luan, co-founder and CEO of AI startup Adept, along with some of Luan's colleagues.

DAVID LUAN, the chief executive of Adept, an A.I. start-up, on the developments that have already started emerging inside the top research labs and in tech products.

This inquiry centers on last month's announcement that Adept CEO David Luan and others were joining Amazon (AMZN), which would also license some of the startup's technology.

The Tolan app, available on iOS, soft-launched in late 2024 and has already attracted 500,000 downloads among people looking for conversational companionship around everything from what to make ...

Adept AI, a company cofounded by David Luan, formerly VP of engineering at OpenAI, has been honing AI agents for office work for more than a year. Adept is cagey about who it works with and what ...

David Luan, VP of Amazon’s Autonomy Team and Head of AGI SF Lab, framed the mission more directly in a recent video call interview with VentureBeat: “We’ve created this new experimental AI ...

The Amazon spokesperson said the Adept employees have already joined the company and about 20 Adept workers remain at the startup. Adept didn’t respond to a request for comment. At Amazon, Luan ...

Adept is building on this momentum via a new kind of foundation model that can perform actions on any software tool using natural language,” said co-founder and CEO David Luan in a press release.

Tima Miroshnichenko / Pexels Adept CEO David Luan believes that artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually perform written queries instead of merely displaying unsettlingly human results.

From the Forbes piece: Chatbots rule the day in AI for now, but soon, Adept cofounder David Luan predicts, AI won’t just display unsettlingly human responses to typed queries, it will execute them.

Adept was founded by a team with deep roots in large-scale neural networks. David Luan (CEO) led Google’s large model program, and before that was head of engineering at OpenAI.