Adept AI: 100 jobs created
Adept AI, the AI agent startup founded in 2022, grew to approximately 100 employees before Amazon hired its co-founders and most staff in June 2024. Only about 20 employees remained at the original company. The company explicitly cited AI and automation as a primary driver of the workforce reduction. This hiring reflects the growing demand for AI talent in Artificial Intelligence, as companies race to build out their machine learning and AI infrastructure teams.
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100
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100
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Adept AI reaches approximately 100 employees before Amazon acqui-hire
Adept AI, the AI agent startup founded in 2022, grew to approximately 100 employees before Amazon hired its co-founders and most staff in June 2024. Only about 20 employees remained at the original company.