New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- Amazon on Wednesday announced a reorganisation of its artificial intelligence (AI) team, putting a top leader from its cloud division in charge of a new unit.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made the announcement in a message to employees, which was also posted on the company's corporate blog. Peter DeSantis will be leading the new group, Jassy said to his employees.

"I believe we are at this inflection point with several of our new technologies that will power a significant amount of our future customer experiences," he said.

The announcement comes weeks after the company hosted the after the Amazon Web Services annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas, which focuses on AI tools and services.

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