(Reuters) – Amazon.com said on Thursday it has hired Andrew, a computer scientist who previously led artificial intelligence projects at Alphabet Inc.'s Google and China's Baidu, as competition among big tech companies intensifies to add users to its GenAI products.・Mr. Ng was added to the Board of Directors.
Amazon's cloud division faces pressure from Microsoft's early agreement with ChatGPT maker OpenAI to integrate its technology into Azure, while its Alexa voice assistant faces competition from OpenAI and Google's genAI chat tool. There is.
The appointments, effective April 9, also follow layoffs across Amazon, where macroeconomic factors such as inflation and high interest rates have constrained corporate cloud spending and e-commerce sales.
“We are not done reducing service costs as we move into 2024 (and beyond),” CEO Andy Jassy said in a letter to shareholders Thursday.
He said Amazon could reduce costs in some areas of its fulfillment network even as customer cloud spending improves and its advertising business remains strong.
Amazon has laid off hundreds of staff in recent months across divisions including Amazon Web Services, Prime Video Services, its healthcare business and its Alexa division, extending the past two years of large-scale layoffs to 2024. .
Andrew is also an adjunct professor at Stanford University and runs an AI venture studio and a learning company.
(Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Arun Koyur)