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Bezos’ Prometheus Wants To Optimize Engineering
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Jeff Bezos’ new AI company, Prometheus, wants to create an “artificial general engineer.”
Why It Hits: While most buzzy AI companies are focused on the software or hardware implications of cutting-edge systems, Bezos sees AI as a way to supercharge industrial applications. Prometheus could become the OS behind a manufacturing boom.
Behind The Code: Prometheus wants to give engineering an upgrade.
The company plans to build “new engineering tools using many of the techniques used to build chatbots and other AI technologies,” according to The NYT.
It hopes these systems will “improve the design and manufacture of practically any device,” including computers, cars, jet engines, and spaceships.
While little is known about exactly how Prometheus is building these tools, Bezos — who serves as co-CEO alongside Google X veteran Dr. Vik Bajaj — is now spending the majority of his time on the company.
Prometheus has already raised $12 billion at a $29 billion valuation and plans to raise another $100 billion for an investment fund that could back other like-minded companies.
Last Look: Bezos told The NYT that “six thousand years ago, somebody invented the plow, and we all got wealthier. Then, much later, somebody invented the steam engine, and we all got wealthier. What Prometheus seeks to do is offer a set of tools that dramatically accelerates that invention loop.”
Case in point: Dr. Bajaj said it currently takes about 10 years to design and manufacture a new jet engine. If Prometheus can cut that timeline in half, it could save companies like Bezos’ Blue Origin billions of dollars.
The Future: If Prometheus works, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a second Industrial Revolution — this time with robots doing the brunt of the manufacturing.
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.