Jeff Bezos Reportedly Returns To The Trenches As Co-ceo Of New Ai Startup, Project Prometheus

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Amazon’s laminitis Jeff Bezos seems to beryllium getting his hands soiled erstwhile again: nan billionaire is partially backing a caller AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 cardinal successful funding, and will return connected duties arsenic co-chief executive of nan caller venture, nan New York Times reported, citing respective sources acquainted pinch nan project.

Bezos will stock nan position pinch Vik Bajaj, who antecedently led and co-founded Google’s life sciences division. Bajaj besides co-founded Verily, a biotech startup owned by Alphabet, and is nan co-founder of Foresite Labs, an AI-focused connection of finance patient Foresite Capital, though nan study notes he precocious near nan patient to commencement Prometheus, nan study said.

Bezos would beryllium returning to operations for nan first clip since he stepped distant from Amazon successful 2021.

According to nan NYT, nan startup is going to build AI products for engineering and manufacturing successful various fields for illustration computers, aerospace and automobiles. Project Prometheus is focused connected “AI for nan beingness economy”, per its LinkedIn page, and nan study noted that its activity will lucifer that of Periodic Labs, which is building exertion to velocity up technological investigation by simulating nan beingness world to train AI models.

The institution already has almost 100 staff, including researchers from AI firms for illustration Meta, OpenAI and Google DeepMind, nan study said.

Amazon and Bajaj did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

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