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Amazon’s hiring of the founders of AI startup Adept in a reverse acquihire deal has sparked discussion about this unconventional approach to talent acquisition. David Luan, former CEO of Adept and now head of Amazon’s AGI Lab, shared insights into why such deals are beneficial. Luan emphasized that large companies like Amazon can gather critical mass in both talent and computational resources, which is essential for addressing significant research challenges in AI. Luan’s move from Adept to Amazon was driven by his ambition to tackle major research problems in artificial general intelligence, which require substantial resources and investment.