person

David Luan

Amazon; ex-Adept co-founder

Co-founder of Adept AI (action transformers / agents); after Adept's leadership transition in 2024, joined Amazon as VP of AI. Previously a researcher at Google and OpenAI.

current VP of AI, Amazon

past Co-founder, CEO, Adept AI; Researcher, OpenAI

@jluan

Strategy positions

Accelerationendorses

Build faster; delay costs more than capability

Argues agentic AI, systems that take actions on the user's behalf, is the next major capability surface; capability progress here will reshape every productivity tool.

We believe the next decade of AI is action, not just text generation. Adept's bet was that the agents that take real-world action will be the most consequential AI systems.

¶ articleAdept AI· Adept AI· 2023· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with David Luan's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Aditya Ramesh
shared 1 · J=1.00
OpenAI DALL·E creator
Albert Gu
shared 1 · J=1.00
CMU; Mamba and structured state-space models
Alec Radford
shared 1 · J=1.00
OpenAI; lead author of GPT, Whisper, CLIP
Ashish Vaswani
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Co-founder Essential AI; lead author of 'Attention Is All You Need'
Brian Chau
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Executive Director of Alliance for the Future
Charlie Snell
shared 1 · J=1.00
UC Berkeley; LLM efficiency and inference compute

Record last updated 2026-04-25.