Amazon AI Leader Vasi Philomin Leaves AWS

Amazon.com Inc. has lost one of its top artificial-intelligence specialists, with Vasi Philomin departing Amazon Web Services, according to Reuters reports circulated on 26 June. Philomin led AWS’s generative-AI programs, a central pillar of the cloud division’s product strategy. The executive change comes as AWS accelerates investments in generative AI to counter intensifying competition in cloud-based machine-learning services.