Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup will work toward developing an “artificial general engineer,” according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. The startup, called Prometheus, ...

In November, Jeff Bezos announced that he would become co-CEO of a new startup called Prometheus. At the time, the startup said it would focus on “physical AI”—an increasingly common term for applying ...

Follow CNBC's live coverage of an exclusive interview with Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, co-founders and co-CEOs of artificial intelligence startup Prometheus. Prometheus, one of Jeff Bezos' newest ...

Prometheus co-CEOs Vik Bajaj and Jeff Bezos speak with CNBC’s David Faber in San Francisco on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Jeff Bezos has bankrolled his Blue Origin space venture on his own, selling ...

A new startup, led by Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos, just raised $12 billion to build an “artificial general engineer.” Called Prometheus, the company claims a valuation of $41 billion and technology ...

Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the former co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences unit, announced it raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation.

Opus 4.8 shows a growing tendency to reason explicitly about how its outputs will be graded, including in environments where it wasn't told it was being evaluated.

Jeff Bezos during a CNBC Squawk Box interview at Blue Origin’s Rocket Park in Merritt Island, Fla., on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. When CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin described Jeff Bezos’ startup Project ...

Technology billionaire Peter Thiel has been warning about stagnation in American science. In a recent conversation with Jordan Peterson, Thiel observed that the pace of scientific progress in the West ...