Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is getting his hands dirty once again: The billionaire is partially backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus, which has raised $6.2 billion in funding, and will take over as co-chief executive of the new venture, The New York Times reports. informedCiting multiple sources familiar with the project.
Bezos will share the position with Vic Bajaj, who previously led and co-founded Google’s life sciences division. Bajaj also co-founded Verily, a biotech startup owned by Alphabet, and co-founded Foresight Labs, an AI-focused affiliate of the investment firm. visionary capitalHowever, the report says he recently left the firm to start Prometheus.
Bezos will return to operations for the first time since stepping away from Amazon in 2021.
According to NYT, the startup is going to create AI products for engineering and manufacturing in various sectors like computers, aerospace, and automobiles. Project Prometheus focuses on “AI for the physical economy” LinkedIn pageAnd the report says that its work will be the same periodic laboratoriesWhich is creating technology to speed up scientific research by simulating the physical world to train AI models.
The company already has around 100 employees, including researchers from AI firms like Meta, OpenAI and Google DeepMind, the report said.
Amazon and Bajaj did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
