Jeff Bezos just took his first CEO seat since Amazon. the startup is called Prometheus, and it's already worth $41 billion.
what it's building: an "artificial general engineer." AI that designs physical objects, jet engines, machines, drugs, the way LLMs generate text. Bezos calls it "a very modern version of CAD." not robotics.
- ~$41B valuation, $12B Series B (today)
- ~7 months old
- ~150 people from OpenAI, DeepMind, Nvidia
but here's the part nobody's pricing: there's no "internet of manufacturing data" to train on. so the data has to be bought.
the reported plan: raise up to $100B for a fund to buy legacy industrial companies and feed their data in.
the model is the pitch. the data is the moat. watch the data.