US EditionReport: Jeff Bezos Becomes Co-CEO of $6.2 Billion AI Startup Project Prometheus
Project Prometheus, backed with $6.2 billion including Bezos's funding, aims to apply AI to physical tasks like robotics and drug development with nearly 100 employees.
- 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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Amazon's Jeff Bezos is Launching a New AI Start Up Called Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos is set to step into a hands-on leadership role at Project Prometheus, a secretive startup poised to reshape manufacturing landscapes. The billionaire entrepreneur, long synonymous with e-commerce dominance through Amazon, will assume the position of co-CEO, sharing duties with physicist Vik Bajaj. This marks Bezos’s most significant operational commitment since relinquishing his Amazon […]
Jeff Bezos Is a CEO Again
Jeff Bezos has attached himself to a new artificial intelligence startup where he'll serve as co-chief executive—his first formal operational role since stepping down as Amazon CEO in 2021. The company, Project Prometheus, has a staggering $6.2 billion in funding, some of it from Bezos himself, making it...
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RocketNewsJeff Bezos reportedly returns to the trenches as co-CEO of new AI startup, Project Prometheus
Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos seems to be getting his hands dirty once again: the billionaire is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 billion in funding, and will take on duties as co-chief executive.
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