{"id":632958,"date":"2024-08-31T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/amazon-hires-the-founders-of-ai-robotics-startup-covariant\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:10:00","slug":"amazon-hires-the-founders-of-ai-robotics-startup-covariant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amazon-hires-the-founders-of-ai-robotics-startup-covariant\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amazon announced Friday evening that it has hired Covariant\u2019s founders<\/a> \u2014 Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan \u2014 along with \u201cabout a quarter\u201d of the startup\u2019s employees. It\u2019s also signed a non-exclusive license to use Covariant\u2019s robotic foundation models.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Chen told TechCrunch that Covariant is building \u201ca large language model, but for robot language.\u201d In other words, it\u2019s creating AI models for robots, with an initial focus on robotic arms performing common warehouse tasks like bin picking.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith some of the smartest minds, we will advance fundamental research, marrying our rich expertise to unlock new ways for AI and robots to assist our operations employees,\u201d said Joseph Quinlivan, Vice President of Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics, in a statement. \u201c[Embedding] Covariant\u2019s AI technology<\/a> into our existing robot fleet will make them more performant and create real world value for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deal sounds similar to Amazon\u2019s hiring of the founders of AI startup Adept back in June \u2014 another deal that gave Amazon access to new talent and technology without having to fully acquire an existing startup.<\/p>\n

At the time, The Verge described this approach<\/a> as a \u201creverse acquihire,\u201d where tech giants facing antitrust scrutiny can use hiring and licensing deals to disguise their acquisitions, rather than the other way around.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Covariant, meanwhile, said it will continue operating<\/a> under the leadership of Ted Stinson and Tianhao Zhang, with Stinson \u2014 who\u2019d been the startup\u2019s COO \u2014 now stepping into the CEO role. The company added that it remains \u201cdedicated to delivering the Covariant Brain into production environments across a broad set of global industries, including app<\/a>arel, health and beauty, grocery, and pharmaceuticals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Amazon announced Friday evening that it has hired Covariant\u2019s founders \u2014 Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan \u2014 along with \u201cabout a quarter\u201d of the startup\u2019s employees. It\u2019s also signed a non-exclusive license to use Covariant\u2019s robotic foundation models. Earlier this year, Chen told TechCrunch that Covariant is building \u201ca large language model, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/about-amazon-hero-20230227-amazon-288.jpg?resize=1200,675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77337,97802,72481,151572],"class_list":["post-632958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-robotics","tag-amazon-com","tag-covariant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}