Jeff Bezos Will Be Co-ceo Of Ai Startup Project Prometheus

Jeff Bezos is getting a caller job. He’ll reportedly go co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a caller startup that he’s partially funding. The company’s nonstop plans are still unknown, but its attraction is connected AI that could amended manufacturing successful fields including computing, automobiles, and aerospace.

The New York Times reports that Project Prometheus is already 1 of nan amended funded early-stage start-ups successful nan world, pinch $6.2 cardinal successful investment, successful portion from Bezos himself. In summation to financing nan venture, he’ll thief tally nan institution together pinch co-founder Vik Bajaj. He’s a physicist and chemist who erstwhile worked astatine Google X, nan company’s experimental “moonshot factory,” earlier moving health tech institution Verily, an Alphabet-owned task spun retired of that division.

Project Prometheus reportedly has astir 100 labor already, including erstwhile unit from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. With Bezos now among them, this will beryllium his first general operational domiciled astatine a institution since he stepped down arsenic Amazon CEO successful 2021, though since past he’s taken a keen liking successful his SpaceX rival Blue Origin, which past week completed nan first successful landing of its New Glenn booster.