Project Prometheus Led By Jeff Bezos Gets A $6.2B War Chest For Disruptive AI Breakthroughs

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder who stepped away from the operational role of Amazon in 2021, has unexpectedly returned to the C-suite, reportedly co-founding and taking on the role of co-CEO for a new, skunkworks-like artificial intelligence startup named Project Prometheus. The announcement (first reported on by The New York Times) confirms months of building rumors and firmly plants Bezos—and his considerable bankroll—in the expensive and fiercely competitive race for AI supremacy.

This is not another consumer-focused LLM chatbot venture, though; Project Prometheus is taking aim at the real world, focusing on AI systems designed to gain knowledge and execute tasks within the engineering and aerospace markets.

The vision is definitely ambitious: to create (and apply) AI capable of revolutionizing computing, aerospace, automotive, and other physical industries, aligning with Bezos' passion project, Blue Origin. The new company is said to be dedicated to cracking the AI code that ...