Project Prometheus (company)

Project Prometheus
IndustryArtificial intelligence
Founded2025 (2025)
Number of employees
100

Project Prometheus is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup. It was founded by Jeff Bezos, who will serve as co-chief executive. The project will launch with $6.2 billion in funding, partly from Bezos.[1] Vik Bajaj, a chemist and physicist formerly of Google X who is the co-founder and CEO of AI-incubator Forsite Labs, is the startup's co-founder and co-chief executive.[1] As of mid-November 2025, the project had hired nearly 100 employees, including researchers poached from AI firms Meta, OpenAI, and DeepMind.[1][2][3]

Among other things, the company plans to use AI technology to improve engineering and manufacturing in the fields of computing, aerospace, and automobiles.[4][5] It intends to apply AI to physical tasks; this requires systems that can learn not just from massive amounts of digital data, as LLMs are programmed to do, but also from real-world trial and error.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ a b c Metz, Cade (2025-11-17). "Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
  2. ^ Constanz, Jo (2025-11-17). "Jeff Bezos brings signature management style to $6 billion AI startup". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
  3. ^ Axon, Samuel (2025-11-17). "With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
  4. ^ Titcomb, James (November 17, 2025). "Jeff Bezos launches £4.7bn AI start-up". The Telegraph. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
  5. ^ Taylor, Guy (November 17, 2025). "Jeff Bezos launches AI start-up Project Prometheus". The Times. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
  6. ^ Goldman, Sharon (November 18, 2025). "Jeff Bezos is putting $6.2 billion—and himself as co-CEO—behind a new AI startup. Bubble? That's no trouble". Fortune. Retrieved November 23, 2025.
  7. ^ Fielding, Sarah (November 17, 2025). "Jeff Bezos will head a new engineering-focused AI startup called Project Prometheus". Endgadget. Retrieved November 23, 2025.


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