Amazon hires Microsoft's former Copilot CTO
Amazon hires former Microsoft Copilot CTO Pedram Rezaei as a distinguished engineer, expanding its push into AI agents and workplace tools.
Amazon has hired Pedram Rezaei, Microsoft's former Copilot Chief Technology Officer, to bolster its Agentic AI and Emerging Technologies group. Rezaei, who spent two decades at Microsoft, most recently working on foundation models at the company's Superintelligence team, will initially focus on AWS's Quick and Kiro products. Quick is an AI assistant and productivity app, while Kiro is an AI-powered coding tool.
Both products have seen significant growth under Rezaei's leadership, with Quick's monthly AI users increasing fourfold from Q1 to Q2 and Kiro's user base doubling over the same period. This move comes as Amazon aims to expand its AI investments into widely used products and capitalizes on the growing market for AI agents, with competitors such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft making significant headway in the space.
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