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Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation to build AI that engineers physical products
Bezos’s Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock. It builds AI for engineering physical products with 150 employees.
TL;DR
- Prometheus, co-led by Jeff Bezos, raised $12 billion in a funding round valuing the company at $41 billion.
- Total funding for Prometheus now exceeds $18 billion.
- The company is building AI tools to accelerate the design and manufacturing of physical products.
- Target industries include computing, aerospace, automotive, advanced manufacturing, and drug discovery.
- Prometheus is focused on "physical AI," trained on real-world experimental data, robotics, and engineering workflows.
- Jeff Bezos has taken an operational role in the company, his first since stepping down as Amazon CEO.
- Prometheus also plans to raise tens of billions more for a holding company to acquire firms that can benefit from its technologies.