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Inside Bezos’s Ai Venture That Nods At Greek Myth

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In the ancient texts, Prometheus was a Titan who gifted fire and civilization to humankind. In our current reality, it’s the name of a Jeff Bezos startup that’s intended to be like a large language model for manufacturing and engineering. The company announced $12 billion in new funding yesterday, bringing its value to $41 billion.

Prometheus, co-led by Bezos and former Google exec Vik Bajaj, launched seven months ago with ~$6 billion in initial funding that Bezos largely provided. Other investors include JPMorgan, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs.

The startup is meant to be like an AI Bob the Builder:

The plan is to create an “artificial general engineer” that expedites the design and manufacturing of physical products, from skyscrapers to phones, Bezos told news outlets.
Prometheus is being trained on physics laws and data from undisclosed manufacturing companies, Semafor reported. Bezos is also reportedly looking to raise $100 billion to buy industrial companies that could feed data to Prometheus and use its AI modeling.

Zoom out: Manufacturing accounts for ~8% of nonfarm employment in the US. Bezos and Bajaj have insisted that Prometheus won’t take jobs away, unlike in the Alien franchise, in which an android from a ship called the Prometheus kills off a race known as The Engineers.—ML

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Inside Bezos’s Ai Venture That Nods At Greek Myth

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