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Title: Bezos Returns To CEO Role With AI Startup Project Prometheus

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/1340210/b...

Jeff Bezos has founded an AI startup called Project Prometheus and will serve
as its co-chief executive. This is his first formal operational role since
stepping down as chief executive of Amazon in July 2021. The company has
raised $6.2 billion in funding, The New York Times reports, partly from
Bezos. The funding makes Project Prometheus one of the most well-financed
early-stage startups in the world. Bezos's co-founder and co-chief executive
is Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist who worked closely with Google co-
founder Sergey Brin at Google X. Dr. Bajaj was among the founders of Verily
in 2015 and co-founded Foresite Labs in 2018. He recently left that position
to focus on Project Prometheus. The company is focusing on AI for engineering
and manufacturing in computers, aerospace, and automobiles. The startup has
already hired nearly 100 employees, the report said. Researchers from OpenAI,
DeepMind, and Meta are among the hires. Project Prometheus is building AI
systems that learn from physical experiments rather than just analyzing
digital text.

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