Prometheus (Project Prometheus)
An 'artificial general engineer', meaning software that automates the design and manufacturing of complex physical systems, from jet engines to drug compounds. Bezos says it is not robotics.
- Founded
- November 2025
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA (offices in London and Zurich)
- Founders
- Jeff Bezos, Vik Bajaj
- Pushes against
- Chat-style LLM assistants; focuses on engineering and the physical economy.
- Now
- About 150 employees; raised $12B at $41B in 2026-06 (second round). Specifics of what is built are kept under wraps; no public product as of 2026-10-04.
Key people
- Jeff Bezos (co-founder, co-CEO)
- Vik Bajaj (co-founder, co-CEO; ex-Verily)
Funding
- 11 June 2026
- Amount
- $12B
- Valuation
- $41B
- Lead
- Not stated, and the investors named are Bezos, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global and Arch Venture Partners
- November 2025
- Amount
- $6.2B
- Lead
- Bezos (largest backer, per GeekWire)
Every funding round in the atlas
Sources
- techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/jeff-bezoss-prometheus-raises-12b-to-build-an-artificial-general
- geekwire.com/2026/bezos-ai-startup-prometheus-raises-12b-at-41b-valuation-and-the-ceos-exp
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Prometheus_(company)
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