Jeff Bezos founded and led one of the most valuable companies in the world in Amazon, and he’s back in the CEO saddle.
Jeff Bezos has become the co-CEO of a new startup named Project Prometheus. This is the first time that Bezos has taken an operational role at a company since stepping down as Amazon CEO in 2021. Bezos had stepped down after 27 years at the helm of Amazon, and Andy Jassy had taken his place.
Jeff Bezos has now co-founded Project Prometheus, and become its co-CEO. Project Prometheus is focusing on AI that will help in engineering and manufacturing in a number of fields, including computers, aerospace and automobiles. It has raised $6.2 billion in funding, most of it from Jeff Bezos himself. As per Project Prometheus’ LinkedIn page, it provides “AI for the physical economy”, and has between 51-200 employees. Prometheus was a Greek god who took fire from the Olympian gods and gave it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge and, more generally, civilization.
Apart from Amazon, Jeff Bezos is also involved with his space company Blue Origin, in which he is listed as the founder. Blue Origin was founded all the way back in 2000, and has plodded along even as SpaceX has hogged most of the limelight in recent years. Just last week, Blue Origin had a big win when it was able to land one of its rockets back on a barge at sea, much like SpaceX.
But Bezos seems to have also been quietly working on an AI play. It’s unclear what Project Prometheus will do, but Bezos has been speaking about space again in recent times. Just last month, he’d said that there will be AI datacenters in space within 20 years. It remains to be seen what exactly Project Prometheus will do, but Bezos, 61, seems to want to play his part in the AI revolution and build yet another company after Amazon and Blue Origin.