Overview
- Prometheus, which emerged from stealth Thursday, named Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj as co‑CEOs and disclosed reported new fundraising and valuation figures that are still being corroborated.
- Bezos told reporters the company has raised about $12 billion and that Prometheus is valued at roughly $41 billion, a claim described in coverage as developing rather than independently verified.
- The founders say the company will build large AI models aimed at physical tasks — an “artificial general engineer” — and are assembling physics‑based and manufacturing test data to train those models.
- Prometheus has recruited engineers from OpenAI, DeepMind and Nvidia, employs roughly 150 people, and runs a large in‑house GPU cluster while also buying external compute capacity.
- Leaders sketched a second‑phase plan to apply the models by operating or buying industrial companies to reshape manufacturing, and Bezos predicted the push could boost productivity, tighten labor markets, and lower costs in key sectors.