Former Amazon CEO to co-head Project Prometheus with tech executive Vik Bajaj, according to the New York Times

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. Leading the company alongside Bezos is his co-founder and co-CEO Vik Bajaj, a celebrity tech executive in his own right. Bajaj is a physicist and chemist best known for his work at Google’s moonshot factory, X, where he founded the health startup Verily.

        • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
          2·
          6 hours ago

          I feel like we’re probably screwed either way at this point. Everything seems to just be getting more expensive with no end in sight. Maybe it’s me being bitter, but I would at least like to see the billionaires money burn a little lol. Unfortunately, no matter what happens they’ll be ok, and everyone else suffers regardless, so idk.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    18 hours ago

    Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?

    You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.

    Here is a suggestion:

    Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.

    Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:

    1. A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
    2. A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
    3. A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.

    At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.

    Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.

    As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.

    The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Some people care more about being remembered as a good person after they have died rather than having the highscore when they die.

        Look at Alfred Nobel, the entire reason for creating the Nobel prize was to try and rehabilitate his memory after having invented dynamite.

        I could see something similar motivating modern billionaires.