{"id":144556,"date":"2025-11-17T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144556\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:07:07","slug":"amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-ai-startup-project-prometheus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144556\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos: AI Startup Project Prometheus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon<\/a> founder Jeff Bezos<\/a> has reportedly launched an AI startup where he\u2019ll serve as co-CEO.<\/p>\n

The company, dubbed \u201cProject Prometheus,\u201d<\/a> is launching with $6.2 billion in financing, some of it from Bezos himself, the New York Times (NYT) reported<\/a> Monday (Nov. 17), citing three sources familiar with the project.<\/p>\n

The report notes this is the first time Bezos has taken an official operational role in a company since leaving Amazon<\/a> four years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Project Prometheus has already hired nearly 100 employees, including researchers recruited from OpenAI<\/a>, Google DeepMind<\/a> and Meta<\/a>, the sources said. The NYT says the company has thus far kept a low profile, and it\u2019s unclear when it was even started or where it will be based.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Project Prometheus is part of a wave of companies working to apply AI to physical tasks like robotics or drug design.<\/p>\n

This year saw the launch<\/a> of Periodic Labs<\/a>, a company founded by veterans of Meta, OpenAI, DeepMind and other major AI players, focused on developing AI that can boost discoveries in fields like chemistry and physics.<\/p>\n

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That company plans to build its own lab in Northern California where robots will conduct scientific experiments on a massive scale. By examining these efforts, AI systems can, in theory, learn to carry out experiments largely on their own, the report added.<\/p>\n

Project Prometheus will delve into similar work, according to the sources familiar with the company\u2019s plans. The company is working on AI to assist in engineering and manufacturing in fields such as computers, automobiles and aerospace, aligning with Bezos\u2019 interest in space travel, the report added.<\/p>\n

Joining Bezos as co-founder\/co-CEO is Vik Bajaj<\/a>, a physicist and chemist who worked with Google\u2019s co-founder Sergey Brin at Google\u2019s X. That project produced Wing<\/a>, a drone delivery service, and the self-driving vehicle<\/a> that became Waymo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other AI news, PYMNTS spoke recently with Trulioo<\/a> CEO Vicky Bindra<\/a> for the \u201cWhat\u2019s Next in Payments: The Year of the CEO\u201d series. He characterized 2025 as the year in which CEOs came to terms with what artificial intelligence truly means for their companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it machine learning? Is it agents? Or is it generative AI? They\u2019re sort of connected<\/a>,\u201d he said. \u201cBut people talk about them as very different blocks. Your ability to be either influenced, supported or disintermediated by any of these technologies is what\u2019s causing the biggest concern or opportunity for businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has reportedly launched an AI startup where he\u2019ll serve as co-CEO. The company, dubbed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,3468,218,219,61,60,3916,43,59209,82788,179,80,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-144556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-amazon","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-jeff-bezos","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-periodic-labs","17":"tag-project-prometheus","18":"tag-pymnts-news","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-whats-hot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}