Amazon AI lab opening in San Francisco [Video]

Amazon is forming a new lab in San Francisco, called the Amazon AGI SF Lab, to develop new foundational capabilities for enabling useful AI in the digital and physical worlds. The new lab’s work will build on that of the company’s broader AGI team, which recently introduced Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs).

Amazon said the AGI SF Lab is designed to empower AI researchers and engineers to make major breakthroughs with speed and focus. It said the lab’s initial focus is on several key research bets that will enable AI to perform real-world actions, learn from human feedback, self-course-correct, and infer the lab’s goals. Amazon said it is particularly excited about the work in combining large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) to solve reasoning and planning, learned world models, and generalizing AI agents to physical environments.

The announcement of the AGI SF Lab comes …