Prometheus (company)
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
|---|---|
| Founded | November 2025 |
| Founders | Jeff Bezos Vik Bajaj |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Key people | Jeff Bezos (co-CEO) Vik Bajaj (co-CEO) |
Number of employees | 120 |
Prometheus, formerly Project Prometheus, is a US-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup.
History
[edit]It was founded by Jeff Bezos in November 2025, who will serve as co-chief executive. The project will launch with $6.2 billion in funding, partly from Bezos.[1] Vik Bajaj, a chemist and physicist formerly of Google X who is the co-founder and CEO of AI-incubator Foresite Labs, is the startup's co-founder and co-chief executive.[1]
Prometheus is based in San Francisco, with offices in London and Zurich.[2] In August 2026, the San Francisco Business Times reported that the company had signed a lease for a former American Steel warehouse in West Oakland.[3] As of December 2025, the project had hired over 120 employees, including researchers poached from AI firms xAI, Meta, OpenAI, and DeepMind.[1][4][5]
Among other things, the company plans to use AI technology to improve engineering and manufacturing in the fields of computing, aerospace, and automobiles.[6][7] It intends to apply AI to physical tasks; this requires systems that can learn not just from massive amounts of digital data, as LLMs are programmed to do, but also from real-world trial and error.[8][9]
In November 2025, Project Prometheus acquired General Agents, an agentic AI start-up.[10]
As of 2026, the Prometheus group is also seeking large-scale funding for a holding company that would acquire companies that Bezos and Bajaj anticipate will be hit by industrial AI technology.[2]
The company changed its name from Project Prometheus to Prometheus in 2026.[11][12]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Metz, Cade (2025-11-17). "Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
- 1 2 Hammond, George; Criddle, Cristina; Rosner-Uddin, Rafe (February 26, 2026). "Jeff Bezos's $30bn start-up seeks tens of billions to buy industrial companies disrupted by AI". Financial Times. Retrieved March 1, 2026.
- ↑ "Project Prometheus, Jeff Bezos' stealth AI startup, finds a home in the East Bay". San Francisco Business Times. 2026-08-10. Retrieved 2026-08-11.
- ↑ Constanz, Jo (2025-11-17). "Jeff Bezos brings signature management style to $6 billion AI startup". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
- ↑ Axon, Samuel (2025-11-17). "With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
- ↑ Titcomb, James (November 17, 2025). "Jeff Bezos launches £4.7bn AI start-up". The Telegraph. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
- ↑ Taylor, Guy (November 17, 2025). "Jeff Bezos launches AI start-up Project Prometheus". The Times. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
- ↑ Goldman, Sharon (November 18, 2025). "Jeff Bezos is putting $6.2 billion—and himself as co-CEO—behind a new AI startup. Bubble? That's no trouble". Fortune. Retrieved November 23, 2025.
- ↑ Fielding, Sarah (November 17, 2025). "Jeff Bezos will head a new engineering-focused AI startup called Project Prometheus". Endgadget. Retrieved November 23, 2025.
- ↑ Paresh, Dave (26 November 2025). "Jeff Bezos' New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup". Wired.
- ↑ Bishop, Todd (2026-06-11). "Bezos' AI startup Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation, and the CEOs explain what they're doing". GeekWire. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ "Jeff Bezos' startup Prometheus does not have any corporate ties with Amazon or Blue Origin; as Bezos says: It deserves ..." The Times of India. 2026-06-13. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
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