Bezos and Bajaj on Prometheus: Live updates

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

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

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