{"slug": "amazon-agi-foundation-team-been-disbanded", "title": "Amazon \"AGI foundation team\" been disbanded", "summary": "Amazon has disbanded its AGI foundation team, impacting most members of its Mixture-of-Experts pre-training team, according to a former team member's social media post. The team was part of Amazon's AGI lab, which focused on advancing artificial general intelligence research.", "body_md": "Looking for new oppotunities! Most members in our MoE pre-training team got impacted today 😅 Feel free to ask me about what happened inside of Amazon AGI foundation team and I will share my brief thoughts with my tenure period. Also, if you know there is any place that needs people to help/optimize LLM pretraining, please share that with me! I am open to new opportunities in the next few month!\n\n- Amazon had a AGI lab? What was it making?\n- Hi! If you’re interested in data heavy and post training work at a hedge fund, I’d love to chat. Not pretraining though\n# Join the conversation", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amazon-agi-foundation-team-been-disbanded", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/yuxin_tang_/status/2080042329583374796", "published_at": "2026-07-23 10:55:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 11:22:42.891431+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Amazon", "AGI foundation team", "Mixture-of-Experts pre-training team"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amazon-agi-foundation-team-been-disbanded", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amazon-agi-foundation-team-been-disbanded.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amazon-agi-foundation-team-been-disbanded.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/amazon-agi-foundation-team-been-disbanded.jsonld"}}