New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- Rohit Prasad, the Indian-origin Amazon AI chief, is set to leave the company after a 12-year stint. Sharing the news, CEO Andy Jassy said, "Rohit Prasad.has decided to leave Amazon at the end of this year."

In a blog post, Jassy shared that Rohit had joined Amazon in 2013, during the early days of Alexa, "to help us build a conversational AI that could make customers' lives easier".

"Rohit helped Alexa grow from an ambitious idea into a service that now touches hundreds of millions of customers' lives every day," he said.

For the past two years, Rohit led the creation of Amazon Nova and Amazon's artificial generative intelligence (AGI) unit organisation, "building twelve state-of-the-art foundation models with ind...