Jeff Bezos will head a brand new en...

Jeff Bezos is spearheading a brand new AI began known as Undertaking Prometheus, targeted on his present pursuits in area and engineering, The New York Times reports. The corporate, which has but to be made public, will reportedly have $6.2 billion in funding. A part of that sum will come from Bezos, who will act as co-CEO.

Undertaking Prometheus will reportedly give attention to creating AI methods that achieve information from the bodily world, quite than simply processing digital info, like AI chatbots. Specifically, the corporate will reportedly discover how AI can help engineering and manufacturing in areas corresponding to autos and area expertise. Bezos based area expertise firm Blue Origin greater than twenty years in the past. The corporate’s New Glenn rocket had a profitable second flight final week.

He’s joined by Vik Bajaj as co-founder and co-CEO. Bajaj is a physicist and chemist who labored on tasks at Google X together with Wing and what grew to become Waymo. In 2018, he co-founded Foresite Labs, which helps entrepreneurs within the fields of AI and information science. Bajaj continues to be named as CEO of Foresite Labs on the corporate’s web site and his LinkedIn page — the latter of which additionally reveals his new titles at Undertaking Prometheus. Bajaj lists his involvement within the new firm as beginning this month and places San Francisco, London and Zurich as its areas.

On its bare LinkedIn page, Undertaking Prometheus’ overview states solely “AI for the bodily financial system.” It additionally lists itself as a “Expertise, Info and Web” firm with 51-200 staff. Based on The New York Instances, Undertaking Prometheus has employed almost 100 individuals, with some staff coming from fellow AI corporations like OpenAI and DeepMind.