# Rohit Prasad Rohit Prasad is an Indian-American AI scientist and executive, best known for more than a decade shaping Amazon's AI efforts. He was the long-time head scientist of Alexa AI (the conversational AI behind Amazon's assistant), then became Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon, leading the team behind the Amazon Nova foundation models. Before Amazon, he spent years at BBN Technologies working on speech recognition and natural language systems. In late 2026 he departed Amazon in a leadership shakeup and teamed up with [[Andrew Ng]] to build [[OpenWorker]], the open-source, local-first "AI coworker" released under MIT license in July 2026. The move is notable: one of the people who ran a big lab's frontier-model program betting on the open, privacy-preserving, model-independent side of the agent race. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Rohit Prasad]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Rohit Prasad]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[OpenWorker]] - [[Andrew Ng]] - [[Artificial Intelligence (AI)]] ## References - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohitprasad01/ - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-announces-203450149.html