Amazon announced the establishment of a new artificial intelligence (AI) lab on Monday. The new research lab will be called Amazon AGI SF Labs, which will be based in San Francisco, focusing on developing AI agents with real-world applications. The Seattle-based technology recently hired several senior executives from startup Adept AI Labs and will seed the new department through new employees. Additionally, Amazon Agi SF Labs will be led by former CEO and co-founder of Adept David Luam.
Amazon builds Amazon Agi SF lab
The tech giant said in a blog post that the new research division will focus on developing fundamental capabilities for AI agents that can act in the digital and physical worlds. It is worth noting that AI agents can be understood as smaller, more efficient AI chatbots, which can also perform operations through integration with dedicated hardware and software.
Amazon stressed that the team’s responsibility will include building “practical AI” that can perform tasks for the company and its customers. As the name implies, the team will also work closely with Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team, which recently introduced the Nova’s family of basic models.
“Our initial focus is on several key research bets that will enable AI agents to perform real-world actions, learn from human feedback, self-learning corrections, and infer our goals,” the company said in a blog post. Amazon also stressed that the team will combine large language models (LLM) with enhanced learning (RL) to solve inference and planning, world models of learning, and generalize agents into physical environments.
Amazon also announced that it hopes to hire “dozens” for Amazon’s AGI SF lab. The company is looking for AI experts who have trained state-of-the-art (SOTA) models as well as candidates in other fields such as physics, mathematics, quantitative financing, and more. The blog post also adds that experience level is not the standard for recruitment.
Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced the Nova family of artificial intelligence (AI) model on its RE:Invents Conference, which includes three text-based models, an image generation model and a video generation model. All of these models are available for corporate customers of the company and can be used from Amazon bedrock platforms.
