Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Prometheus

Jeff Bezos gets a new job. He will reportedly become co-CEO of Prometheus, a new startup he is partly funding. The company’s exact plans are still unknown, but its focus is on artificial intelligence that could improve manufacturing in areas including computing, automobiles and aerospace.

New York Times Reports Prometheus is already one of the best-funded early-stage startups in the world, with $6.2 billion in investments, partly from Bezos himself. In addition to financing the project, he will help run the company with co-founder Vic Bajaj. He’s a physicist and chemist who previously worked at Google A truly healthy technology companyan Alphabet-owned project that emerged from this division.

The Prometheus project reportedly already has nearly 100 employees, including former employees of OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. With Bezos among them, this will be his first formal operating role at the company since taking office He stepped down as CEO of Amazon in 2021, though it has since shown keen interest in rival SpaceX Blue Origin, which last week completed the project. First successful landing From supporter New Glenn.