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Prometheus is one of Jeff Bezos‘ newest ventures.
The artificial intelligence startup launched in November with $6.2 billion in funding. Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon‘s CEO in 2021, serves as co-CEO alongside Vik Bajaj, a professor at Stanford University’s School of Medicine who previously co-founded Alphabet’s Verily, a research lab dedicated to life sciences.
Prometheus is focused on building AI models for physical tasks, including engineering, manufacturing and drug design. The startup has remained tight-lipped about its initial products, and it has been busy recruiting talent from companies including OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Nvidia.
CNBC’s David Faber will sit down for an exclusive interview with Bezos and Bajaj at 10 a.m. ET from Prometheus’ San Francisco headquarters.
Bezos told CNBC last month that Prometheus is working on an “artificial intelligence engineer” that would make it easier for engineers to design physical objects.
He said Prometheus is “something I got so excited about that I became the co-CEO of the company, putting a lot of time into it, a lot of energy into it.”
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What we know about Prometheus
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gestures as he speaks at the main panel of Italian Tech Week 2025 in Turin, Italy October 3, 2025. Remo Casilli | Reuters
Prometheus has mostly operated in stealth since its launch in November, sharing few details about its objectives or potential product pipeline.
Bezos offered a rare window into Prometheus when he spoke to CNBC last month. He said the company has “nothing to do with robotics,” and that it’s developing an artificial general engineer.
“We’re building tools that will make it much easier for engineers to design physical objects,” Bezos said.
He described the system as a “very, very modern version” of CAD, or computer-aided design software, though he cautioned that he’s “really oversimplifying here, and it’s premature for me to give much detail about Prometheus.”
Prometheus operates out of San Francisco, London and Zurich, Switzerland. Prometheus’ LinkedIn page states that the startup has hired about 120 employees.
The page says Prometheus’ mission is “AI for the physical economy.”
—Annie Palmer
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Bezos’ post-Amazon pursuits
Prometheus marks the first time Bezos has assumed a CEO role since he left the helm of Amazon, which he founded, in July 2021. Bezos remains Amazon’s executive chairman, but he has increasingly turned his attention to other pursuits.
Bezos founded Blue Origin, a rocket startup that competes with Elon Musk‘s SpaceX for government contracts and satellite launch missions. He’s also executive chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, a $10 billion climate and biodiversity fund.
—Annie Palmer
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Bezos spends his time on AI at Amazon, Blue Origin and Prometheus
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Bezos told CNBC last month that AI has been a huge part of his focus over the last few years.
“My time at Amazon is spent on AI, my time at Prometheus is spent on AI … and my time at Blue is largely spent on AI,” he said.
—Chris Eudaily
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