Amazon scales back Nova models and most in-house AI labs
Original title: Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
Bloomberg says text, image, and video Nova models are on maintenance while compute shifts to Pieter Abbeel’s frontier effort.
Futurism, citing Bloomberg, reports Amazon is narrowing its in-house AI work after Nova models failed to gain traction. Most Nova text, video, and image models are in a “keep the lights on” state with minimal resources. Labor and compute are moving to a frontier-model effort led by Pieter Abbeel, whose robotics company Covariant Amazon acquired in 2024. A week earlier Amazon closed an 80-person San Francisco office focused on artificial general intelligence research.
Unconfirmed: The restructuring is attributed to Bloomberg and Amazon insiders, with no Amazon statement quoted in this article.
- Amazon insiders told Bloomberg most Nova models are now minimally supported.
- The closed San Francisco AGI research site had about 80 people.
- Abbeel directs the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and joined via Covariant.
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