Adept said it would operate independently of Amazon | Credit: Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Amazon has hired AI startup Adept’s co-founders and some of its team, as the tech giant looks to boost its AI development by hiring top AI talent. 

Adept CEO David Luan was hired by Amazon as well as “a few other deeply talented team members to our AGI team,” according to an internal memo by Rohit Prasad, lead of Amazon’s artificial general intelligence (AGI) unit.

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The Adept co-founders and some of the team are joining Amazon’s AGI organisation to continue to pursue the mission of building useful general intelligence, the company said in a blog post.

“Amazon is also licensing Adept’s agent technology, family of state-of-the-art multimodal models, and a few datasets,” the company wrote.

The move mirrors a similar tactic from rival Microsoft, which hired Google DeepMind cofounder and Inflection AI lead Mustafa Suleyman in March, along with several of Inflection’s top executives. 

Adept said it would operate independently of Amazon, as the tech giant provides a licensing fee to use Adept’s technology. 

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Amazon will use Adept’s technology to “accelerate our roadmap for building digital agents that can automate software workflows,” Prasad wrote in the memo.

The move comes as Amazon continues to invest towards its large language model which it hopes will rival Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet. 

Adept is a leading company creating AI agents, which are tools that carry out complicated functions and tasks without the need for human supervision.

The US startup said it will now focus entirely on solutions that “enable agentic AI, which will continue to be powered by a combination of our existing state-of-the-art in-house models, agentic data, web interaction software, and custom infrastructure”.