SITUATION EXPLAINED: Jeff Bezos just announced Prometheus, a new frontier AI lab focused on the physical world:
• $12 billion raised, $41 billion valuation, Bezos is the primary backer
• Founded alongside Vik Bajaj... the former director of Google X
• Mission: build an artificial general engineer that ingests data from the physical world to accelerate engineering and manufacturing
• If you're starting a frontier lab right now, you need a story that distinguishes you from LLMs, Prometheus has one
@theojaffee: "Bezos has money, and he's got that dog in him."