Jeff Bezos is without doubt one of the world’s richest and most well-known tech CEOs, however he hasn’t truly been a CEO of something since 2021. That’s now altering as he takes on the function of co-CEO of a brand new AI firm, in accordance with a New York Instances report citing three folks conversant in the corporate.
Grandiosely named Mission Prometheus (and to not be confused with the NASA undertaking of the identical identify), the corporate will deal with utilizing AI to pursue breakthroughs in analysis, engineering, manufacturing, and different fields which can be dubbed a part of “the bodily economic system”—in distinction to the software program purposes which can be doubtless the very first thing most individuals in most people consider after they hear “AI.”
Bezos’ co-CEO will likely be Vik Bajaj, a chemist and physicist who beforehand led life sciences work at Google X, an Alphabet-backed analysis group that labored on speculative initiatives that might result in extra product classes. (For instance, it developed applied sciences that may later underpin Google’s Waymo service.) Bajaj additionally labored at Verily, one other Alphabet-backed analysis group targeted on life sciences, and Foresite Labs, an incubator for brand spanking new AI corporations.
