Amazon shakes up AI team as veteran Prasad leaves, DeSantis promoted

Amazon is shaking up its artificial intelligence team with one long-time veteran heading for the exit and another taking over a more expansive group that includes AI models, custom silicon and quantum computing.

The move comes just two weeks after the Amazon Web Services annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas, which the company has turned into a showcase for AI tools and services.

Amazon has been working to shake a reputation that it is trailing competitors like Google, Microsoft and OpenAI in developing AI models. It has invested roughly $8…