BusinessJun 11, 2026
Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B at a $41B valuation for physical-world AI
Jeff Bezos’s stealthy AI startup Prometheus — which he co-leads with Google veteran Vik Bajaj — raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation from investors including JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners. The company is building AI tools to speed up the engineering and manufacturing of physical products — robots, jet engines, drugs, chip design, and data centers — by 10x or more. It is one of the largest rounds ever for a months-old startup.
Why it matters: Most AI money chases software; Prometheus is a bet that the bigger prize is AI that designs and builds physical things — and that a name like Bezos can raise the compute to try.