Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus

Jeff Bezos is getting a caller job. He’ll reportedly go co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a caller startup that he’s partially funding. The company’s nonstop plans are inactive unknown, but its absorption is connected AI that could amended manufacturing successful fields including computing, automobiles, and aerospace.

The New York Times reports that Project Prometheus is already 1 of the amended funded early-stage start-ups successful the world, with $6.2 cardinal successful investment, successful portion from Bezos himself. In summation to financing the venture, he’ll assistance tally the institution unneurotic with co-founder Vik Bajaj. He’s a physicist and chemist who erstwhile worked astatine Google X, the company’s experimental “moonshot factory,” earlier moving health tech institution Verily, an Alphabet-owned task spun retired of that division.

Project Prometheus reportedly has astir 100 employees already, including erstwhile unit from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. With Bezos present among them, this volition beryllium his archetypal ceremonial operational relation astatine a institution since helium stepped down arsenic Amazon CEO successful 2021, though since past he’s taken a keen involvement successful his SpaceX rival Blue Origin, which past week completed the first palmy landing of its New Glenn booster.