Amazon restructures its AI division under Peter DeSantis and deepens investments in Anthropic and OpenAI partnerships to challenge frontier AI leaders.

Remember the last time Anthropic tussled with the Trump administration, all the way back in February, when a coterie of competing AI researchers and CEOs (even Sam Altman!)…

Peter DeSantis says Amazon's AI models "haven't been at the frontier" and hopes to close the gap in a year, relying on custom chips and proprietary data.