Jeff Bezos' New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources. In early June, tech entrepreneur Vik Bajaj took over Saison, a two-Michelin star restaurant in San Francisco, for an off-the-record dinner to talk about AI with journalists and a handful of scientists. In attendance was Sherjil Ozair, a late addition who had previously held senior research roles at DeepMind and Tesla . The following day, Bajaj and Ozair were on their way to making a deal, public records show. Bajaj didn't mention it at the dinner, but earlier this year he had begun working with Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos on a new AI venture called Project Prometheus.

Jeff Bezos speaks at the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, on 6 November 2025. Jeff Bezos speaks at the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, on 6 November 2025. After stepping down as Amazon's CEO four years ago, Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder and former chief executive of the online shopping company, is going to be a CEO again. This time, Bezos has appointed himself co-CEO of an AI startup called Project Prometheus, the New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources. The startup, which will focus on developing AI for engineering and manufacturing in various fields, has already received $6.2bn in funding - more than many companies are able to raise in their lifetimes.

There's no doubt that Artificial Intelligence has become a major buzzword these days. You might already be aware of it as this trailblazing technology that has made captivating headlines in terms of the innovations that it brings along and the risks that it poses. Be it a self-driving car, a sex robot that can breathe, or a healthcare tool that detects possible breast cancer better than the experts, Artificial Intelligence is dominating almost every industry that we can think of. It has remained one of the biggest stories in tech in a course of the last few years and we wanted to know what its future holds. To see a picture beyond the mainstream AI, we interviewed Karan Bajaj, Founder and CEO, WhiteHat Jr, who shared with us his insight around Machine Learning, need for ethics around AI, and AI's impact on education.

Artificial Intelligence is poised to disrupt many industries, but education arena has not typically been at the forefront of such conversations. If it has been included at all, the narrative has been in a more abstract manner than actual application. And even though several companies such as Carnegie Learning and Content Technologies, Inc have taken either more adult learning approaches or those that are deeply rooted in tech, the space is still anyone's game with new trends to be developed for Gen Z. The industry is an important one not only for its ability to generate an entirely new level of learning but also because of the very real business opportunity in the space. Indeed, the artificial intelligence in education size is forecasted at a market size worth $6 billion dollars by 2024.