Overview
- Reports name physicist and former Google X executive Vik Bajaj as co-founder and co-CEO alongside Bezos.
- Project Prometheus is described as developing AI for the physical economy, targeting applications across computing hardware, automobiles and aerospace.
- The startup has reportedly hired nearly 100 people, including researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta, with LinkedIn listings pointing to San Francisco, London and Zurich.
- Coverage notes the unusually large early funding and that Reuters and others have not independently verified details, with no immediate comment from Bezos’s representatives.
- Public reaction included Elon Musk joking that Bezos is a “copycat,” as industry voices weigh the scale of financing and talk of an AI investment bubble.