{"id":288974,"date":"2025-11-17T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288974\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:57:07","slug":"jeff-bezos-to-co-lead-ai-startup-called-project-prometheus-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288974\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos to co-lead AI startup called Project Prometheus: media report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jeff Bezos speaks at the America Business Forum in Miami on Nov. 6.Rebecca Blackwell\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Jeff Bezos will serve as co-chief executive officer of a new artificial intelligence<\/a> startup that focuses on AI for engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft, the New York Times reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

The company, called Project Prometheus, has garnered US$6.2-billion ($8.7-billion) in funding, partly from the Amazon founder, making it one of the most well-financed early-stage startups in the world, the report said, citing three people familiar with the company.<\/p>\n

This is the first time Bezos has taken a formal operational role in a company since he stepped down as the CEO of Amazon AMZN-Q<\/a> in July, 2021. Though he is involved in Blue Origin, his official title at the space firm is founder.<\/p>\n

With the new startup, Bezos is entering a crowded AI market with several smaller firms attempting to break through with new software and products while in a race with industry mainstays such as the Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Meta META-Q<\/a> and Google GOOGL-Q<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reuters could not independently verify the report.<\/p>\n

Bezos and a representative did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n

Bezos\u2019 co-chief executive is Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist who worked closely with Google\u2019s co-founder Sergey Brin at Google\u2019s X, a research effort often called \u201cThe Moonshot Factory,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

Project Prometheus has already hired nearly 100 employees, including researchers from top AI firms such as OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta, according to the Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Jeff Bezos speaks at the America Business Forum in Miami on Nov. 6.Rebecca…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,901,276,277,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-288974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alberta","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}