Nov 17, 2025
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Jeff Bezos is taking on his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021. According to the New York Times, he is stepping in as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new AI startup backed by 6.2 billion dollars, part of which comes directly from Bezos. That amount puts the company among the best-funded early-stage startups anywhere.
He is sharing the top job with Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist who previously worked at Google X alongside Sergey Brin. Bajaj contributed to projects like the self-driving car that later became Waymo. He also co-founded the life sciences lab Verily and most recently led Foresite Labs before joining Project Prometheus.
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