| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
|---|---|
| Founded | November 2025 (November 2025) |
| Founders | Jeff Bezos Vik Bajaj |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
Key people | Jeff Bezos (co-CEO) Vik Bajaj (co-CEO) |
Number of employees | 120 |
Prometheus, formerly Project Prometheus, is a US-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup.
History
It was founded by Jeff Bezos in November 2025, who will serve as co-chief executive. The project will launch with $6.2 billion in funding, partly from Bezos.1 Vik Bajaj, a chemist and physicist formerly of Google X who is the co-founder and CEO of AI-incubator Foresite Labs, is the startup's co-founder and co-chief executive.1
Prometheus is based in San Francisco, with offices in London and Zurich.2 As of December 2025, the project had hired over 120 employees, including researchers poached from AI firms xAI, Meta, OpenAI, and DeepMind.134
Among other things, the company plans to use AI technology to improve engineering and manufacturing in the fields of computing, aerospace, and automobiles.56 It intends to apply AI to physical tasks; this requires systems that can learn not just from massive amounts of digital data, as LLMs are programmed to do, but also from real-world trial and error.78
In November 2025, Project Prometheus acquired General Agents, an agentic AI start-up.9
As of 2026, the Prometheus group is also seeking large-scale funding for a holding company that would acquire companies that Bezos and Bajaj anticipate will be hit by industrial AI technology.2
The company changed its name from Project Prometheus to Prometheus in 2026.1011
References
References
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- Titcomb, James (November 17, 2025). "Jeff Bezos launches £4.7bn AI start-up". The Telegraph. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
- Taylor, Guy (November 17, 2025). "Jeff Bezos launches AI start-up Project Prometheus". The Times. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
- Goldman, Sharon (November 18, 2025). "Jeff Bezos is putting $6.2 billion—and himself as co-CEO—behind a new AI startup. Bubble? That's no trouble". Fortune. Retrieved November 23, 2025.
- Fielding, Sarah (November 17, 2025). "Jeff Bezos will head a new engineering-focused AI startup called Project Prometheus". Endgadget. Retrieved November 23, 2025.
- Paresh, Dave (26 November 2025). "Jeff Bezos' New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup". Wired.
- Bishop, Todd (2026-06-11). "Bezos' AI startup Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation, and the CEOs explain what they're doing". GeekWire. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- "Jeff Bezos' startup Prometheus does not have any corporate ties with Amazon or Blue Origin; as Bezos says: It deserves ..." The Times of India. 2026-06-13. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2026-06-15.