Amazon appoints AI expert Andrew Ng to board amid generative AI competition
- Amazon adds AI expert Andrew Ng to its board as competition heats up over generative AI products
- Ng previously led AI projects at Google and Baidu
- Comes as Amazon Web Services faces pressure from Microsoft's OpenAI integration
- Follows recent job cuts across Amazon divisions like AWS, Alexa, video, and healthcare
- Ng is an adjunct Stanford professor and runs AI companies