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Amazon AGI Labs chief defends his reverse acqui-hire

The former Adept CEO said he hopes to be "remembered more as "an AI research innovator" than a "a deal structure innovator."

But from his perspective, it’s “perfectly rational” for companies like Amazon to “put together critical mass on both talent and compute right now.” As for why he was willing to leave his startup for Amazon, Luan said he wasn’t interested in turning Adept into a “an enterprise company that only sells small models” — he wanted to solve “the four crucial remaining research problems left to AGI.” “Every single one of them is going to require two-digit billion-dollar clusters to go run it,” he said.

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