Meet ‘very cute’ Amazon employee who inspired name of their AI chatbot

AI chatbot names like ‘Gemini’ and ‘Rufus’ are significant. Rufus, a 1996 corgi, shaped Amazon’s culture. Eric and Susan Benson’s Rufus had Bezos’s approval. Rufus impacted Amazon from the first warehouse, attending meetings. A finance executive stated ‘all dogs are named Rufus.’ Rufus inspired a generative AI assistant, and his paw print is memorialized.