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Jeff Bezos Missed the LLM Boom. Now He Wants to Build an A.I. Engineer
With Prometheus, Jeff Bezos is trying to move A.I. beyond chatbots and into the far messier world of engineering, manufacturing and physical-world data.
Jeff Bezos may have missed the first wave of A.I., dominated by large language models. But with his startup Prometheus reaching a $41 billion valuation this month, he is betting on the frontier concept of physical A.I.—by building what he calls an “artificial general engineer” (AGE).
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“This is an age-old dream, the idea that you might build a set of tools that can actually do engineering,” Bezos told CNBC earlier this month, adding that his team has been working on the concept since late 2024. Prometheus, officially founded in November 2025, is led by........
