In media silence, Jeff Bezos is building one of the most ambitious artificial ielligence projects in the world; A startup called “Project Prometheus” whose focus is the developme of systems that obtain their knowledge not from text and images on the Iernet, 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 was to redefine the foundations of next-generation artificial ielligence.
According to American media reports, the startup Prometheus Project, which has not yet been officially iroduced, has started its activities with a capital of about 6.2 billion dollars. A significa 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 differe path from mainstream artificial ielligence, which relies heavily on processing digital data such as text conversations and iernet 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 environme like a human.
In early applications, Prometheus specifically explores how artificial ielligence 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 promine 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 ielligence for the physical economy”; A seence 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 preses 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 importa thing is that some of these people have been recruited from among the specialists of competitive companies in the field of artificial ielligence such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind; A sign of a new and serious competition in the new wave of artificial ielligence.
The Prometheus project is not an ordinary startup; The company was to build a new generation of artificial ielligence that learns not with data from the Iernet, but with the real world. The presence of figures such as Bezos and Bajaj, multi-billion dollar capital and attracting tale from pioneering companies, shows that Prometheus can be one of the most serious players in the next wave of artificial ielligence; A wave whose focus moves from text and pixels to matter and reality.
