Overview
- The company, co‑led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, closed the Series B that drew major institutional investors including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners, according to multiple reports.
- Prometheus calls its goal an "artificial general engineer" or AGE, an AI system meant to automate and speed design, simulation and pre‑production work for complex physical products such as jet engines, medical devices and semiconductors.
- The Series B, announced Thursday, follows a November launch with roughly $6.2 billion and brings total disclosed funding to more than $18 billion for a team of about 120–150 people across San Francisco, London and Zurich.
- Founders stress heavy compute needs and secrecy about technical details and datasets, and they have floated possible commercial uses with Amazon or Blue Origin while saying no formal partnerships have been announced.
- Investors and analysts say the funding signals a major bet on 'physical AI' but also raises questions about data scarcity, execution risk for industry deployment and how widespread adoption could change engineering labor and industrial supply chains.