US EditionReport: Jeff Bezos Becomes Co-CEO of $6.2 Billion AI Startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos takes a formal leadership role for the first time since 2021, co-leading a $6.2 billion AI startup aiming to advance AI in manufacturing and scientific research.
- Project Prometheus announced Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, will become co-CEO alongside Vik Bajaj, who will share the operational role.
- Project Prometheus will apply AI to physical tasks including robotics, drug development and scientific discoveries, aiming to improve engineering and manufacturing across computers, automobiles and aerospace with nearly 100 employees including researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta.
- Project Prometheus is already backed with $6.2 billion, partly funded by Bezos, and co-founder Vik Bajaj brings experience as former Google Life Sciences/Verily CSO and Foresite Labs leader.
- Jeff Bezos will take his first formal operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021, joining Project Prometheus amid competition from investors like SoftBank in the physical AI sector.
- Project Prometheus lists Nal Kalchbrenner as founding technical staff while its founding date and base remain unclear, joining a trend of former researchers forming ventures like Periodic Labs earlier this year.
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