Bezos-backed Prometheus raises $12 billion to build an 'artificial general engineer'
Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos and Stanford scientist Vik Bajaj, said on June 11 that it raised $12 billion at roughly a $41 billion valuation. The company is building what Bezos calls an “artificial general engineer” — AI meant to compress the slow, costly cycle of designing and manufacturing physical objects, from chips and jet engines to bridges and drug compounds.
The round drew Bezos himself alongside JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global and Arch Venture Partners, Bezos said . Combined with a $6.2 billion launch round late last year, total funding now tops $18 billion.
The raise is among the largest ever for a private AI company and reflects a bet that the next frontier for AI lies in the physical economy — engineering and manufacturing — rather than in software and chatbots alone. The company has not yet shipped a product, so the valuation rests on the premise rather than a track record.