The search results confirm the existence of a startup named "Prometheus" co-led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj. It has indeed raised $12 billion in a recent Series B funding round, valuing the company at $41 billion. This funding brings its total capital raised to over $18 billion. The company launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in initial funding.
Prometheus's mission is to build an "artificial general engineer" (AGE) aimed at accelerating the design and manufacturing of physical products across various industries like computing, aerospace, automotive, advanced manufacturing, and drug discovery. It focuses on "physical AI," which involves training models on real-world experimental data, robotics interactions, and engineering workflows, rather than just text and images. Bezos has taken an operational co-CEO role, his first since stepping down as Amazon CEO in 2021.
The investors in this round include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners, along with Bezos himself. The company has about 150 employees with offices in San Francisco, London, and Zurich. Prometheus aims to compress the design-to-manufacturing cycle for complex physical products from years to months. Bezos and Bajaj emphasize that Prometheus is focused on engineering software for pre-production optimization (prototyping, simulation, workflow design) rather than factory automation or consumer chatbots.
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