# Prometheus AI Valued at $41 Billion; Bezos-Backed AGE Platform Raises $12B

> Prometheus, the secretive startup where Jeff Bezos has taken the CEO role, has raised a $12 billion Series B at a $41 billion valuation, bringing its total funding above $18 billion. The company is building what it calls an artificial general engineer, software meant to automate the design and manufacturing of complex physical systems, from jet engines to drug compounds. This is Bezos's first chief executive job since he stepped back from Amazon in 2021, and he runs it as co-CEO with Vik Bajaj, a veteran of Alphabet's life sciences work. The company launched in late 2025 with $6.2 billion, employs around 150 people across San Francisco, London, and Zurich, and is directing the majority of its capital toward compute. The pitch is a bet on AI moving off the screen and into the physical economy. Bezos argues that AI-driven productivity will create a kind of labor scarcity that raises living standards, a notably optimistic framing at a moment when much of the debate runs the other way. Whether an AI can meaningfully engineer real hardware remains unproven, but the scale of the raise shows how much investors want to find out.

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## Wortins' read

Prometheus, the secretive startup where Jeff Bezos has taken the CEO role, has raised a $12 billion Series B at a $41 billion valuation, bringing its total funding above $18 billion. The company is building what it calls an artificial general engineer, software meant to automate the design and manufacturing of complex physical systems, from jet engines to drug compounds. This is Bezos's first chief executive job since he stepped back from Amazon in 2021, and he runs it as co-CEO with Vik Bajaj, a veteran of Alphabet's life sciences work. The company launched in late 2025 with $6.2 billion, employs around 150 people across San Francisco, London, and Zurich, and is directing the majority of its capital toward compute. The pitch is a bet on AI moving off the screen and into the physical economy. Bezos argues that AI-driven productivity will create a kind of labor scarcity that raises living standards, a notably optimistic framing at a moment when much of the debate runs the other way. Whether an AI can meaningfully engineer real hardware remains unproven, but the scale of the raise shows how much investors want to find out.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/jeff-bezoss-prometheus-raises-12b-to-build-an-artificial-general-engineer-for-the-physical-world/)

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