Amazon layoffs AGI artificial general intelligence unit model customization
Amazon $AMZN cut an unspecified number of jobs in its artificial general intelligence unit, CNBC reports, with affected staff focused on model customization and post-training. The cuts follow the December 2025 folding of AGI work into a broader group covering silicon and quantum
Amazon $AMZN has cut an unspecified number of jobs in its artificial general intelligence unit, CNBC reported, with affected employees including staff who worked on model customization and post-training. The company did not disclose the size of the cuts. The move follows Amazon's December 2025 decision to fold its AGI work into a larger organization that also covers silicon development and quantum computing, as well as the earlier departures of AGI-focused executives Rohit Prasad and David Luan. The cuts land even as Amazon continues to invest heavily in AI elsewhere in the business, including a $1 billion initiative to embed AWS engineers directly with customers building agentic AI systems. The contrast points to a company narrowing its own frontier-model ambitions while betting bigger on AI as a service layer for enterprise customers, a distinction that matters for anyone tracking whether Amazon intends to compete directly with OpenAI and Anthropic on model development.