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Lambert Mathias announced on LinkedIn that he’s joining JPMorgan in Seattle as a managing director. He says his work will center on agentic enterprise AI rather than virtual reality, drawing on his Reality Labs experience building multimodal, egocentric perception systems with LLMs. Mathias spent six years at Reality Labs before moving to Amazon. He spent eight years at Amazon as a machine learning scientist, contributing to the team behind Alexa and focusing on improving conversational capabilities.

This might come in handy; JPMorgan chief data officer Theresa Heitsenrether said last year that junior bankers will soon manage teams of “digital colleagues,” which will be much less lonely if those colleagues can hold a conversation. Mathias arrives at a particularly interesting time given his VR background; JPMorgan’s global head of immersive technology and spatial computing research, Blair McIntyre, quietly left the bank this month according to his LinkedIn. He worked on augmented reality in addition to VR since 2022, initially worked under the bank’s quantum computing guru Marco Pistoia, who left the bank last year. McIntyre said the technology could be combined with AI and integrated into the workflow of JPMorgan staff to provide “serendipitous access to information.”

It’s not clear whether JPMorgan has a replacement lined up for McIntyre, nor whether Mathias will lend his VR-expertise to the division in addition to his agentic AI duties. JPMorgan did not respond to a request for comment.

Lambert Mathias announced on LinkedIn that he is joining JPMorgan in Seattle as a managing director. He says his work will center on agentic enterprise AI rather than virtual reality, drawing on his Reality Labs experience building multimodal, egocentric perception systems with LLMs. Mathias spent six years at Reality Labs before moving to Amazon.

He spent eight years at Amazon as a machine learning scientist, contributing to the team behind Alexa and focusing on improving conversational capabilities. JPMorgan chief data officer Theresa Heitsenrether said last year that junior bankers will soon manage teams of “digital colleagues” who can hold conversations, reducing loneliness. The timing is notable given his VR background, as JPMorgan’s global head of immersive technology and spatial computing research, Blair McIntyre, quietly left the bank this month.

It is not clear whether Mathias will lend his VR expertise to the division in addition to his agentic AI duties, or how this appointment will fit JPMorgan’s immersive tech strategy. McIntyre’s departure raises questions about integrating VR with AI-driven workflows at the bank. JPMorgan did not respond to a request for comment.