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Adept

AI startup whose founders Amazon hired in 2024

It hired Adept AI's founders, including chief executive David Luan, on June 28, 2024, then built a new AI-agent research lab around him that December.

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  • AI LatelyMay 14, 2026

    “It hired Adept AI's founders, including chief executive David Luan, on June 28, 2024, then built a new AI-agent research lab around him that December.”

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  1. Hiring & Talent

    The Compensation Revolution

    Meta's nine-figure packages and a run of license-and-hire deals worth billions, from Microsoft's Inflection buyout to Google's Windsurf pickup, show incumbents paying for entire research teams while structuring around the merger review a straight acquisition would trigger.

    May 14, 2026

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