Rohit Prasad

Former SVP & Head Scientist, Amazon AGI (departed end of 2025)

Organization
Amazon

Position
Former SVP & Head Scientist, Amazon AGI (departed end of 2025)

🇮🇳🇺🇸Indian-American

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Intelligence Briefing

Led Amazon's AGI organization from 2023 until his departure in late 2025. Previously head scientist for Alexa, driving speech recognition, NLU, and ML for Amazon Echo. Led creation of 12 Amazon Nova foundation models. 100+ scientific publications. Named by Fast Company as one of the Most Creative People.

Expertise

Speech RecognitionNatural Language UnderstandingFoundation ModelsAGISpeech AI

Education

BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering — Birla Institute of Technology

MS, Electrical Engineering — Illinois Institute of Technology

AGI Position Assessment

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LOW

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HIGH

CRITICAL

Predicted AGI Timeline

Unknown

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Safety Approach

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Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10

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