Jeff Bezos Takes the Reins as Co-CEO at a New AI Startup [View all]

Source: Gizmodo

The 61-year-old Amazon founder is investing $6.2 billion into a new AI company called Project Prometheus, and he’ll serve as the startup’s co-CEO, according to the New York Times.

The company, which the New York Times has called one of the most well-financed early-stage startups in the world, will focus on building AI to assist engineering and manufacturing operations across industries.

Bezos’ co-founder and co-CEO in the venture is physicist and chemist Vik Bajaj. He is best known for his work at Google X, the company’s moonshot factory that works on “radical new technology.” The lab is behind early support for Google-backed companies like robotaxi giant Waymo and life sciences company Verily, which Bajaj co-founded in 2015. Bajaj was most recently the CEO of AI startup incubator Foresite Labs, which he allegedly left to focus on the new venture with Bezos.

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Not much else is known about Project Prometheus. The company aims to build AI tools to be used in industries like aerospace and automotive, but there is no information yet on what exactly that would look like, where the company will be based, or when the venture was even started.

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