Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closes $12 billion round at a $41 billion valuation

Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closed a $12 billion funding round, valuing the company at $41 billion. The company, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in seed funding, is building AI models for physical tasks in engineering, manufacturing, and drug design. Bezos said the funding will largely go toward compute-intensive data generation, though the startup has not yet revealed any products.

Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closes $12 billion round at a $41 billion valuation Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus has closed a $12 billion funding round. The company is now valued at $41 billion, according to CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/project-prometheus-bezos-bajaj-live-updates.html . Prometheus launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in seed funding. Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021, leads the company alongside Vik Bajaj, a Stanford professor and co-founder of Alphabet's research lab Verily. The startup has also poached employees from OpenAI, Google Deepmind, and Nvidia. A big chunk of the money is going toward compute, since the work is "very compute intensive" - especially data generation, Bezos says. The startup hasn't shown any products yet. Sharing details would be "premature," Bezos says, but he adds that it's "easy to imagine Amazon or any hyperscaler" using the tools Prometheus builds. Prometheus is building AI models for physical tasks: engineering, manufacturing, and drug design. The goal is to help engineers design and build products faster. The original announcement https://the-decoder.com/jeff-bezos-launches-project-prometheus-a-6-2-billion-ai-bet-on-faster-engineering/ pointed to engineering work in the tech, automotive, and aerospace industries. AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/project-prometheus-bezos-bajaj-live-updates.html