Bezos unveils Prometheus AI startup with $12B funding round

Jeff Bezos has revealed more about Prometheus, his AI startup focused on building an “artificial general engineer” for complex physical machines. The company announced a $12 billion funding round at a $41 billion valuation, according to reporting cited in the article. Prometheus was started in late 2024 with Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist who previously helped create Verily at Alphabet. Bezos says the goal is to speed up the process of moving from idea to product, especially for fields such as jet engine design, where he said improvements can take years. Bezos also argued that AI will create more jobs rather than eliminate them, saying the productivity gains could expand opportunity and raise living standards. The article presents Prometheus as part of a broader push to apply AI to engineering and invention, while noting that the labor market impact remains a debated topic.