Amazon's R&D lab forms new agentic AI group

Group 1 - Amazon has established a new team within its consumer product-development division focused on agentic artificial intelligence [1] - The new group will develop an agentic AI framework for robotics operations, enabling robots to understand and act on natural language commands [2] - Amazon's AI lab previously released a web browser-based agent and its cloud unit has also created an agentic AI group [3] Group 2 - The agentic AI capabilities are expected to enhance Amazon's Alexa+ voice assistant, which was updated in March [3] - There is a growing trend among companies to develop AI agents that can perform complex, multistep actions beyond simple text and image generation [2]