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With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again
He stepped down at Amazon in 2021 and doesn’t hold a CEO title at Blue Origin.
TL;DR
- Jeff Bezos is taking on the role of co-CEO for a new AI company, Project Prometheus.
- The company will focus on using AI for breakthroughs in the 'physical economy', including research, engineering, and manufacturing.
- Vik Bajaj, a chemist and physicist with experience at Google X and Verily, will be Bezos' co-CEO.
- Project Prometheus has nearly 100 employees, including researchers poached from major tech firms.
- The company is launching with $6.2 billion in funding, partly from Bezos himself.