Jeff Bezos to co-lead AI startup in first operational role since Amazon, NYT reports

(Reuters) -Jeff Bezos volition service arsenic co-chief enforcement serviceman of a caller artificial quality startup ​that focuses connected AI for engineering and manufacturing of computers, ‌automobiles and spacecraft, the New York Times reported connected Monday.

The company, ‌called Project Prometheus, has garnered $6.2 cardinal successful funding, partially from the Amazon founder, making it 1 of the astir well-financed early-stage startups successful the world, the study said, ⁠citing 3 radical acquainted ‌with the company.

This is the archetypal clip Bezos has taken a ceremonial operational relation successful a institution ‍since helium stepped down arsenic the CEO of Amazon successful July 2021. Though helium is progressive successful Blue Origin, his authoritative rubric astatine the abstraction ​firm is founder.

With the caller startup, Bezos is entering ‌a crowded AI marketplace with respective smaller firms attempting to interruption done with caller bundle and products portion successful a contention with manufacture mainstays specified arsenic the Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Meta and Google.

Reuters could not independently verify the report.

Bezos and a typical did not instantly ⁠respond to a Reuters petition for comment.​

Bezos' co-chief enforcement is Vik ​Bajaj, a physicist and chemist who worked intimately with Google's co-founder Sergey Brin astatine Google's ‍X, a probe ⁠effort often called “The Moonshot Factory,” the study said.

Project Prometheus has already hired astir 100 employees, including ⁠researchers from apical AI firms specified arsenic OpenAI, DeepMind and Meta, according ‌to the Times.

(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala successful ‌Bengaluru; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)