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When Amazon hired the founders of AI startup Adept last year, it was one of the first examples of what became known as a reverse acquihire \u2014 a deal where a large company hires key startup team members and licenses its technology, rather than acquiring the startup outright.<\/p>\n
Adept\u2019s co-founder and former CEO David Luan subsequently became the head of Amazon\u2019s new\u00a0AGI Lab, and while Luan\u2019s recent interview with The Verge is ostensibly focused on Amazon\u2019s vision for AI agents, reporter Alex Heath also asked him about the reverse acquihire trend.<\/p>\n
Luan replied that hopes to be \u201cremembered more as being an AI research innovator rather than a deal structure innovator,\u201d \u2014 but from his perspective, it\u2019s \u201cperfectly rational\u201d for companies like Amazon to \u201cput together critical mass on both talent and compute right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for why he was willing to leave his startup for Amazon, Luan said he wasn\u2019t interested in turning Adept into a \u201can enterprise company that only sells small models,\u201d because he wanted to solve \u201cthe four crucial remaining research problems left to AGI.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery single one of them is going to require two-digit billion-dollar clusters to go run it,\u201d he said. \u201cHow else am I [\u2026] going to have the opportunity to go do that?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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