Project Prometheus

Prometheus, launched as Project Prometheus, is an AI company building systems that learn from the physical world to speed up engineering and manufacturing, in fields such as vehicles, aerospace and computing, rather than consumer chatbots.^{Source [2]Source [5]Source [3]}

Jeff Bezos co-founded it in February 2025 with Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist who worked on projects at Google X and co-founded the AI incubator Foresite Labs. The two have served as co-CEOs since the company was made public in November 2025.^{Source [1]Source [2]Source [5]}

It launched with $6.2 billion in reported funding, partly from Bezos, and in November 2025 acquired the agentic AI startup General Agents. In June 2026 it announced a $12 billion Series B round at a $41 billion valuation and said it employed roughly 150 people.^{Source [5]Source [6]Source [4]}

Bezos has said the company has no corporate ties to Amazon or Blue Origin, though he described Blue Origin as a case study for a potential customer. Its locations have been listed as San Francisco, London and Zurich.^{Source [4]Source [2]}

Co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, formerly of Google X, and reported in November 2025 to be launching with $6.2 billion in funding, with both serving as co-CEOs. In June 2026 the company, now called Prometheus, said it had raised $12 billion in a Series B round at a $41 billion valuation.^{Source [1]Source [2]Source [5]Source [4]Source [3]}