Prometheus project; Jeff Bezos’ $6.2 billion startup to build a new generation of physical artificial intelligence

In media silence, Jeff Bezos is building one of the most ambitious artificial intelligence projects in the world; A startup called “Project Prometheus” whose focus is the development of systems that obtain their knowledge not from text and images on the Internet, but from the physical world. With more than $6.2 billion in capital and a team of experts from Google, DeepMind, and OpenAI, the company wants to redefine the foundations of next-generation artificial intelligence.

According to American media reports, the startup Prometheus Project, which has not yet been officially introduced, has started its activities with a capital of about 6.2 billion dollars. A significant part of this capital was provided by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and he is also considered one of the chief executives of this project.

The startup aims to take a different path from mainstream artificial intelligence, which relies heavily on processing digital data such as text conversations and internet images. According to the release, Prometheus will focus on developing systems that derive their knowledge from the physical world; A system that can observe, analyze and understand the environment like a human.

In early applications, Prometheus specifically explores how artificial intelligence can support engineering and manufacturing processes in complex industries, including automotive, aerospace and space technology. This path is not alien to Bezos; He founded the space company Blue Origin more than two decades ago. The company’s New Glen rocket also recorded its second successful launch last week.

Bezos is joined by Vic Bajaj, a prominent physicist and chemist and former director of Google’s X projects, as co-founder and chief executive officer. Bajaj has a history of cooperation in large projects such as Wing (Google’s delivery drone project) and the prototype of self-driving cars, which later became Waymo.

On the project’s LinkedIn page, the company’s vision is described as “artificial intelligence for the physical economy”; A sentence that shows that the goal is to build systems that are directly related to the real world and industry. According to the information on this page, Prometheus presents itself as a technology and information company with 51 to 200 employees.

However, reports The New York Times It shows that this startup did not stop with this number and has hired around 100 people so far. The important thing is that some of these people have been recruited from among the specialists of competitive companies in the field of artificial intelligence such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind; A sign of a new and serious competition in the new wave of artificial intelligence.

The Prometheus project is not an ordinary startup; The company wants to build a new generation of artificial intelligence that learns not with data from the Internet, but with the real world. The presence of figures such as Bezos and Bajaj, multi-billion dollar capital and attracting talent from pioneering companies, shows that Prometheus can be one of the most serious players in the next wave of artificial intelligence; A wave whose focus moves from text and pixels to matter and reality.