Jeff Bezos is getting a brand new job. He’ll reportedly turn out to be co-CEO of Undertaking Prometheus, a brand new startup that he’s partly funding. The corporate’s actual plans are nonetheless unknown, however its focus is on AI that might enhance manufacturing in fields together with computing, vehicles, and aerospace.
The New York Instances experiences that Undertaking Prometheus is already one of many higher funded early-stage start-ups on the earth, with $6.2 billion in funding, partly from Bezos himself. Along with financing the enterprise, he’ll assist run the corporate along with co-founder Vik Bajaj. He’s a physicist and chemist who as soon as labored at Google X, the corporate’s experimental “moonshot manufacturing facility,” earlier than operating well being tech firm Verily, an Alphabet-owned enterprise spun out of that division.
Undertaking Prometheus reportedly has practically 100 workers already, together with former workers from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. With Bezos now amongst them, this shall be his first formal operational position at an organization since he stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021, although since then he’s taken a eager curiosity in his SpaceX rival Blue Origin, which final week accomplished the primary profitable touchdown of its New Glenn booster.
