Jeff Bezos is without doubt one of the world’s richest and most well-known tech CEOs, however he hasn’t really 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 keeping with a New York Times report citing three folks acquainted with the corporate.
Grandiosely named Challenge Prometheus (and to not be confused with the NASA mission of the identical identify), the corporate will give attention to utilizing AI to pursue breakthroughs in analysis, engineering, manufacturing, and different fields which are dubbed a part of “the bodily economic system”—in distinction to the software program purposes which are possible the very first thing most individuals in most of the people consider once they hear “AI.”
Bezos’ co-CEO might 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 will 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 firms.
