Overview
- Bezos will co-lead Project Prometheus with Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist known for roles at Verily and Foresite Labs.
- Reporting describes an initial focus on AI that helps design and manufacture in computing, aerospace and automotive industries.
- The startup has hired roughly 100 people, including researchers recruited from OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta.
- About $6.2 billion has been raised with part of the financing coming from Bezos, according to accounts cited by The New York Times.
- The company has operated in stealth with its founding date undisclosed and is characterized as one of the best-funded early-stage AI ventures.