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Jeff Bezos\u2019s secretive A.I. venture grows its talent roster with engineers from top labs.. Photo by Lionel Hahn\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\t\tJeff Bezos\u2019s secretive A.I. venture grows its talent roster with engineers from top labs.. Photo by Lionel Hahn\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Jeff Bezos<\/a> has been keeping a low profile since stepping in as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, the code name for his secretive A.I. startup, last year. But behind the scenes, he\u2019s been busy. The company has been raising fresh capital, pursuing acquisitions and aggressively recruiting top talent<\/a> across Silicon Valley. One of its newest hires is Kyle Kosic<\/a>, recruited to join Bezos\u2019s initiative<\/a> after stints at OpenAI and xAI<\/a>, according to the Financial Times. Kosic joins a fast-growing team filled with alumni from major tech companies. Like many of Project Prometheus\u2019s recruits, he specializes in A.I. infrastructure. Such skills will be crucial as the company aims to transform engineering and manufacturing through automation powered by A.I.<\/p>\n Project Prometheus gives Bezos\u2019s first operational position since stepping down as Amazon\u2019s CEO<\/a> in 2021. Although he remains the founder of Blue Origin<\/a>, he\u2019s no longer its chief executive. At Project Prometheus, however, he shares leadership duties with co-founder Vikram Bajaj<\/a>, a former Google<\/a> X researcher who also co-founded the life sciences venture Verily and the investment firm Foresite Capital. Since launching in 2025, Project Prometheus has expanded rapidly, filling offices in San Francisco, London and Zurich.<\/p>\n Investors have taken notice. The startup raised $6.2 billion last year and now seeks another $6 billion to develop A.I. systems that move beyond large language models (LLMs) toward physical applications in real-world industries. Bezos and Bajaj are also reportedly in talks to raise a separate $100 million fund<\/a> to acquire manufacturing companies in sectors such as semiconductors, defense and aerospace that could benefit from A.I. automation.<\/p>\n Kosic will reportedly focus on A.I. infrastructure projects. He previously worked at OpenAI<\/a>, co-founded Elon Musk\u2019s xAI in 2023, and then returned to OpenAI<\/a> as technical staff. OpenAI declined to comment on his departure.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Project Prometheus\u2019s team is expanding fast. Its sparse LinkedIn page lists between 51 and 200 employees and highlights\u00a0a mission to build \u201cA.I. for the physical economy<\/a>.\u201d A handful of these staffers joined from Bajaj\u2019s Foresite Capital, while others came from agentic A.I. startup General Agents, which Project Prometheus reportedly acquired last year.<\/a> That deal brought in co-founders Sherjil Ozair<\/a> and William Guss<\/a>, both veterans of DeepMind, Tesla<\/a> and OpenAI. Other hires hail from Microsoft<\/a>, Meta<\/a>, Anthropic<\/a>, Nvidia<\/a> and Grammarly<\/a>, underscoring the startup\u2019s formidable technical bench.<\/p>\n Still, Project Prometheus faces stiff competition in the emerging world of physical A.I. Among its rivals: AMI Labs, a Paris-based startup led by former Meta exec Yann LeCun<\/a> that recently raised $1 billion in\u00a0Europe\u2019s largest-ever seed round<\/a>; World Labs<\/a>, a\u00a0Fei-Fei Li\u2013led venture<\/a> focused on world models that raised $1 billion in February; and Periodic Labs, which merges A.I. with the physical sciences and counted Bezos among its backers during a $300 million seed round last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n