Jeff Bezos Returns to Leadership: Co-CEO of $6.2 Billion AI Startup Project Prometheus

According to The New York Times, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will formally assume the role of co-CEO at the AI startup Project Prometheus, a company he partially funds. The report notes that Project Prometheus has already raised $6.2 billion, making it one of the world’s most well-funded early-stage startups. The company’s other co-founder and co-CEO is Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist who previously worked at Google X and led Verily.

Project Prometheus already employs nearly 100 people, including former staff from OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta. Bezos’s decision to return to an operational leadership role underscores the seriousness with which he regards the initiative, and marks his first official position since stepping down as Amazon’s chief executive in 2021. The central ambition is to harness AI to transform manufacturing, particularly in high-precision sectors such as computing, automotive engineering and aerospace.