{"id":668992,"date":"2026-03-20T11:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/668992\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:09:35","slug":"jeff-bezos-aims-to-raise-100-billion-to-buy-revamp-manufacturing-firms-with-ai-wsj-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/668992\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos aims to raise $100 billion to buy, revamp manufacturing firms with AI, WSJ reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/topic\/jeff-bezos\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jeff Bezos;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;Jeff Bezos&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> is in early discussions to raise $100 billion for a new fund \u200cthat would acquire manufacturing companies and seek to \u200cuse AI to drive and speed up automation, the Wall Street \u200bJournal reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">* The Amazon.com founder is holding talks with some of theworld&#8217;s biggest asset managers to secure funding for theproject, WSJ said. * Bezos traveled \u200cto the Middle East \u2060to discuss the new fundwith sovereign wealth representatives in the region a few monthsago, \u2060according to the report. * Described in investor documents as a &#8220;manufacturingtransformation vehicle,&#8221; the fund aims to target companies \u200binmajor industries \u200bsuch as chipmaking, defense, \u200band aerospace, theJournal said. * Last \u200cyear, The New York Times reported that Bezos wouldserve as co-CEO of a new startup called Project Prometheusfocused on AI for engineering and manufacturing computers,automobiles and spacecraft. * Project Prometheus is separately in talks to raise \u200cup to$6 billion in funding, \u200bWSJ said, citing people familiar \u200bwith thematter. It recently named \u200bDavid Limp, Blue Origin&#8217;s CEO, to \u200citsboard of directors. * Project Prometheus \u200braised $6.2 billion late \u200blast year,according to a Financial Times report from February. * Bezos could not be immediately reached for \u200bcomment. Theproject&#8217;s \u200cco-founders, Sherjil Ozair and William Guss, did notrespond \u200bto Reuters requests for comment on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by \u200bJuby Babu in Mexico City)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Jeff Bezos is in early discussions to raise $100 billion for a new fund&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":668993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,94002,888,4061,282605,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-668992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-asset-managers","tag-blue-origin","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-manufacturing-companies","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116261196040035911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}