{"id":71825,"date":"2026-06-12T14:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/71825\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:54:27","slug":"jeff-bezos-backed-ai-startup-prometheus-raises-12b-to-build-artificial-general-engineer-capable-of-designing-jet-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/71825\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos-Backed AI Startup Prometheus Raises $12B To Build &#8216;Artificial General Engineer&#8217; Capable Of Designing Jet Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Bezos highlighted that Prometheus&#8217;s goal is to make it easier and faster for engineers to innovate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">He noted that Prometheus has a team of 150 people in offices across San Francisco, London, and Zurich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Bezos added that Prometheus could be one of Amazon\u2019s customers, pointing to the startup\u2019s compute capacity requirements and the ongoing scarcity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos-backed AI startup Prometheus on Thursday raised $12 billion in its latest funding round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Prometheus is now valued at $41 billion, with Bezos, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock participating in the fundraising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stocktwits.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:See what 10M+ investors are talking about. Get the Stocktwits Daily Rip for what retail is watching right now, free to your inbox;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;See what 10M+ investors are talking about. Get the Stocktwits Daily Rip for what retail is watching right now, free to your inbox&quot;}\" class=\"link \">See what 10M+ investors are talking about. Get the Stocktwits Daily Rip for what retail is watching right now, free to your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Prometheus plans to build an \u201cartificial general engineer\u201d that can dive into the hardware world to design and manufacture complex products like jet engines.<\/p>\n<p>      Bezos Says Prometheus\u2019 Goal Is To Speed Up Invention    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Bezos highlighted that Prometheus&#8217;s goal is to make it easier and faster for engineers to innovate. He added that the startup\u2019s objective is to make engineers more productive, with smaller teams focusing on bigger things on a shorter time scale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u201cThe idea that you might build a set of tools that could actually do engineering, an artificial general engineer. It\u2019s a dream that we\u2019ve had, as people thought about for decades, but it\u2019s never really been possible. But now it is, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been working on since late 2024,\u201d Bezos said in another interview with CNBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Bezos said that Prometheus has a team of 150 people in offices across San Francisco, London, and Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>      Prometheus Could Be An Amazon Customer, Says Bezos    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Bezos added that Prometheus could be one of Amazon\u2019s customers, as the startup requires more compute capacity. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to imagine Amazon or any hyperscaler using the kinds of tools that Prometheus is developing to improve their data centers,\u201d Bezos said, while adding that the two companies would remain at arm\u2019s length.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">However, he said that Prometheus currently sources its compute infrastructure from multiple sources because capacity is scarce right now.<\/p>\n<p>      Bezos Downplays AI Job Loss Concerns    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Bezos downplayed concerns that AI could lead to job losses, saying that if the technology makes it cheaper, easier, and faster to invent, it would actually create more jobs, not fewer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">He also said that AI would boost productivity and raise the standard of living enough for households relying on two incomes to make do with just one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bezos highlighted that Prometheus&#8217;s goal is to make it easier and faster for engineers to innovate. 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