Jeff Bezos reportedly returns to the trenches as co-CEO of new AI startup, Project Prometheus

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Amazon’s laminitis Jeff Bezos seems to beryllium getting his hands soiled erstwhile again: the billionaire is partially backing a caller AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 cardinal successful funding, and volition instrumentality connected duties arsenic co-chief enforcement of the caller venture, the New York Times reported, citing respective sources acquainted with the project.

Bezos volition stock the presumption with Vik Bajaj, who antecedently led and co-founded Google’s beingness sciences division. Bajaj besides co-founded Verily, a biotech startup owned by Alphabet, and is the co-founder of Foresite Labs, an AI-focused affiliate of concern steadfast Foresite Capital, though the study notes helium precocious near the steadfast to commencement Prometheus, the study said.

Bezos would beryllium returning to operations for the archetypal clip since helium stepped distant from Amazon successful 2021.

According to the NYT, the startup is going to physique AI products for engineering and manufacturing successful assorted fields similar computers, aerospace and automobiles. Project Prometheus is focused connected “AI for the carnal economy”, per its LinkedIn page, and the study noted that its enactment volition lucifer that of Periodic Labs, which is gathering exertion to velocity up technological probe by simulating the carnal satellite to bid AI models.

The institution already has astir 100 staff, including researchers from AI firms similar Meta, OpenAI and Google DeepMind, the study said.

Amazon and Bajaj did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

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