After The New York Times story was published, Guss, Ozair, and about three dozen other people updated their LinkedIn profiles to list their affiliation with the Bezos venture. Several of those people also work at Foresite Labs.<\/p>\n
Details about Prometheus remain limited. Its founding date, formal name, and headquarters haven\u2019t been publicly identified. But the dinner Bajaj hosted in June provided other clues.<\/p>\n
At least two other featured guests that night, including former Nvidia senior research scientist Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, quietly joined Prometheus early this year, their newly updated LinkedIn profiles show.<\/p>\n
Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, two former Google researchers who coauthored a famous AI paper<\/a>, ended up being unable to attend the dinner. But both are now founding advisers to Prometheus while running their own startups, according to LinkedIn data and a person familiar with the matter. None of the researchers responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n Built for Speed<\/p>\n Ozair established General Agents last year, and the San Francisco startup released its first technology this past April. Described as \u201ca real-time computer pilot,\u201d Ace takes over a computer and carries out actions based on the user\u2019s prompts. It\u2019s part of a class of tools the AI industry calls computer agents, which can automate daily tasks on a laptop that span across different apps.<\/p>\n One demo video from the launch shows Ace downloading an image from Google and sending it to someone over iMessage in under 15 seconds.<\/p>\n How Ace fits into Prometheus\u2019 plans is still murky. New versions of Ace continue to be released as recently as this month, according to public data<\/a> from General Agents. The company\u2019s website and job postings remain online, and the leader of a team in India helping train Ace also joined Prometheus, according to their LinkedIn profile<\/p>\n