Amazon AI executive leaves, Meta poaches talent from OpenAI, intensifying the competition for talent among tech giants

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2025.06.27 03:01
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Amazon executive Vasi Philomin's departure has drawn industry attention. As a key figure in the AI business, he led the development of the Amazon Bedrock platform. Although Amazon's stock price showed no significant fluctuations, Philomin's departure marks an intensification of talent competition among tech giants. Meanwhile, Meta has poached three researchers from OpenAI, further strengthening its AI research and development team

According to Zhitong Finance APP, the departure of Vasi Philomin, a core executive in Amazon's (AMZN.US) generative artificial intelligence business, has attracted industry attention. As of the report, Amazon's stock price did not show significant fluctuations, closing at $217.12. According to Amazon's confirmation, this veteran in the AI field, who has served for eight years, has officially stepped down from the position of Vice President. As the leader of Amazon Web Services' AI product strategy, Philomin was instrumental in building the strategically significant Amazon Bedrock platform, which has become the preferred solution for enterprise customers to deploy generative AI applications on AWS cloud since its launch in 2023.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Philomin was involved in the entire process of building Bedrock from the ground up, which groundbreaking combined foundational models with enterprise private data, allowing customers to customize exclusive AI models without the need to build their own computing infrastructure. Notably, just before Philomin's departure, there were reports that AWS was planning a major upgrade to Bedrock, aiming to strengthen its differentiated advantages over competitors like Google (GOOGL.US) by optimizing user experience. Although the next steps for this tech leader have not been disclosed, it has been confirmed that he has joined a new company, keeping the industry highly attentive to his career direction.

Amazon has arranged for senior technical executive Rajesh Shesh to take over some core responsibilities. This tech executive, who previously managed Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) business, will bear the responsibility of continuing AWS's leadership position in the AI cloud service field. The talent competition among tech giants is intensifying; on the same day the news of Philomin's departure was announced, it was reported that Meta (META.US) poached three core researchers from OpenAI to supplement its "superintelligence" research team.

It is noteworthy that Meta recently invested $14.3 billion in AI data platform Scale AI and invited its founder, Alexander Wang, to personally lead the new team, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was also reported to have offered a staggering $100 million salary to attract top talent. This high-stakes talent competition spanning cloud computing and artificial intelligence is profoundly impacting the competitive landscape of the global tech industry

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