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Amazon hires Adept co-founders and licenses Adept agent technology

Strategic investmentRestructuredannounced 2024-06-28Verified

Amazon hired Adept co-founders David Luan, Maxwell Nye, Augustus Odena, Erich Elsen, and Kelsey Szot along with much of the technical team, and licensed Adept's agent technology. Adept continued as a smaller company focused on enterprise applications. The structure mirrors the Microsoft-Inflection acqui-hire-as-license template and avoided traditional M&A clearance. Luan moved into a senior AGI team role inside Amazon Web Services.

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Adept blog post: An update from Adept
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