Why they are on the map
Left Feb 2026; AGI Lab since shut - context only source — evidence dated 2026-02
Decides whether the problem is funded.
How Amazon AGI (Nova) buys data
Nova tech report (Mar 2025) says Canvas and Reel human side-by-side evals were run by an unnamed third-party vendor with expert spot-checks of 5-10% per batch, plus human preference data for RLHF; red-teaming with ActiveFence, Deloitte, Nemesys. Large in-house 'AGI Data Services' org is hiring in 2026 (Senior Operations Managers Jul/Aug 2026, Ground Truth Quality auditors, language engineers who design data-collection tasks). FMTI 2025: Amazon discloses no data-labour vendors.
Dec 2025 restructure: AGI org under Peter DeSantis; Frontier Model Research under Abbeel; AGI SF Lab (ex-Adept) shut 2026. Human data largely in-house via AGI Data Services (operations, Ground Truth Quality, training specialists, language engineers).
Known vendors: ActiveFence (red teaming), Deloitte (red teaming), Nemesys Insights (red teaming)
This person was mapped in pass 1. Career, what they have said on the record, interviews, connections, why they matter to us and how to reach them are added in pass 2.