Jeff Bezos, through his startup Prometheus, is betting on physical A.I. by building an “artificial general engineer” (AGE), after missing the early wave of large language models. Prometheus reached a $41 billion valuation this month. Bezos told CNBC that his team has been working on the concept since late 2024. Prometheus, officially founded in November 2025, is led by Bezos as co-CEO alongside Vikram Bajaj, a former director of Google X. The company operates offices in London, Zurich and San Francisco and has a team of roughly 150 employees. Prometheus is developing A.I.-driven tools to accelerate manufacturing and building models for physical tasks across engineering workflows. Key hires include Kyle Kosic, an xAI co-founder and former OpenAI employee; the startup also acquired General Agents, bringing in founders Sherjil Ozair and William Guss, with prior experience at DeepMind, Tesla and OpenAI. Additional hires have come from Microsoft, Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia and Grammarly.