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Vasi Philomin, the vice president of generative AI at Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), has resigned from the company, Reuters reported.
Philomin was the VP and general manager of Generative AI at Amazon, where he led Amazon Web Services’ AI product strategy and drove innovation through engagement with enterprise customers, according to Philomin’s LinkedIn profile.
The profile goes on to say that he “built Amazon Bedrock from the ground up, establishing it as the premier platform for building and scaling generative AI applications on AWS.”
AWS’ AI cloud service Bedrock is a suite of tools that gives customers the ability to use foundation models with their own data to create the model they need at that particular time, without having to invest in servers. Last week, it was reported that AWS is looking to revamp Bedrock in an effort to make it easier for customers to use and compete with rivals such as Alphabet’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) Google.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Seeking Alpha.
Philomin told Reuters in an email that he left Amazon for another company, without providing specifics. An Amazon spokesperson told the news agency that Philomin recently left after eight years with the company. Philomin helped lead generative AI efforts and product strategy, and oversaw foundation models known as Amazon Titan, the report added.
Rajesh Sheth, a vice president previously overseeing Amazon Elastic Block Store, has taken over some of Philomin’s responsibilities, the spokesperson noted as per the report.
The exit comes at a time when tech giants are looking for talent to bolster their AI teams.
Earlier on Thursday, it was reported that Meta Platforms (META) hired three researchers from OpenAI — the Microsoft (MSFT) backed ChatGPT creator — to join its superintelligence efforts. The Mark Zuckerberg-led company recently invested $14.3B in Scale AI and brought on its CEO Alexandr Wang to head its superintelligence team.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that Meta has offered his employees bonuses of $100M to recruit them.