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Microsoft Zune executive J Allard is leading a secretive team at Amazon


J Allard, a former Microsoft executive who helped create the Zune and the Courier, is now leading a team developing products at Amazon.

What ZeroOne is actually working on remains a bit mysterious, but CNBC was able to find another listing for a"Senior Applied Scientist" role that suggests the team will be "conceiving, designing, and bringing to market computer vision techniques for a new smart-home product." ZeroOne will exist inside Amazon's larger devices and services division, which is led by Panos Panay, another Microsoft expat. Since Panay joined the company, Amazon has launched a new lineup of Kindles and introduced Alexa+, its integration of generative AI into the well-known voice assistant.

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