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1. “Adept was the first AI agent startup. We ended up inventing the computer use agent effectively. There was some good research beforehand. We had the first production one and Amazon brought us in to go run agents for Amazon about a year ago at this point.”

   2025-08-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “It is an eternity in AI years. I remember when I first started working in the field, I worked in it just because I thought it was interesting. I thought having the opportunity to be able to build systems that could think like humans and hopefully deliver superhuman performance in things was such a cool thing to do. And I had no idea that it was going to blow up the way that it did. But my personal background, I love the research and engineering team at OpenAI from 2017 to mid 2020, where the teams did GIPT2 and 3 and Clip and Dali and every day was just so much fun because you would show up to work and it's just your best friends and all trying a bunch of really interesting research ideas and there was none other pressure that exists right now. Then after that I led the LLM effort at Google where we trained a model called Palm which was a quite strong model for its time but a bunch of us shortly after that decamped to various startups and my team and I ended up starting”

   2025-08-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “First off, I find it absolutely hilarious that I've been around the field for a long time because it's true in relative terms. This field is so new and yet nonetheless like, you know, I've only been doing AI stuff for about the last 15 years. So compared to many other fields, it's just so new.”

   2025-08-21 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT