June 17, 2026

Amazon admits its AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but says it can catch up

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Amazon’s AI chief has said what the market long suspected. Peter DeSantis, the senior vice president who oversees the company’s AI models, custom chips, and quantum computing, told CNBC that Amazon’s models “haven’t been at the very frontier for the...