贝索斯参与的新 AI 项目 Project Prometheus 已筹集约 62 亿美元，招聘逾 100 名员工，并通过收购代理式计算创业公司 General Agents 吸纳数名核心技术人员。收购发生在今年 6 月旧金山一场非公开 AI 晚宴后翌日，创始人 Vik Bajaj（前 Alphabet Verily 联合创办人）在特拉华州注册实体并于四天后完成与 General Agents 的合并。General Agents 联合创始人 Sherjil Ozair（曾任 DeepMind、Tesla 高级研究岗位）及其团队随后加入 Prometheus，其技术 Ace 号称可在 15 秒内跨应用完成自动化操作，被视为其关键资产之一。
目前 Prometheus 仍相当低调，正式名称、总部与成立时间均未公开，但 LinkedIn 数据显示至少三十余人近期更新为隶属该项目，包括前 Nvidia 科研人员 Kamyar Azizzadenesheli，以及著名 Transformer 论文作者 Ashish Vaswani 与 Jakob Uszkoreit（担任创始顾问）。General Agents 的网站和招聘信息仍正常运行，其印度训练团队负责人亦已转入 Prometheus。General Agents 的投资方及贝索斯过去的生物科技布局（如 Grail、Xaira）暗示 Prometheus 或聚焦 AI 驱动的制造业自动化，目标领域涵盖电脑、汽车乃至航天器生产。
行业反馈显示收购引发竞品焦虑。竞争者 Donely 表示，General Agents 最早突破的“速度”——Ace 能在本地机器上以极快速度执行代理操作——是 Prometheus 选择整体并购公司的关键。部分投资人认为被贝索斯收编的竞争对手退出市场有利，但也有人担心未来需直接与 Prometheus 对抗。总体来看，Prometheus 的快速扩张和隐秘运作结合其巨额融资，使其成为新一代 agentic AI 生态中的重量级参与者。
Jeff Bezos–backed Project Prometheus has raised roughly $6.2 billion, hired more than 100 employees, and quietly absorbed agentic computing startup General Agents. The acquisition followed an off-the-record June AI dinner in San Francisco: founder Vik Bajaj formed an acquisition entity the next morning and merged it with General Agents four days later. Cofounder Sherjil Ozair, formerly of DeepMind and Tesla, and several colleagues joined Prometheus. Their core product, Ace—a “real-time computer pilot” capable of executing cross-app tasks in under 15 seconds—appears central to the deal.
Prometheus remains publicly opaque: its formal name, headquarters, and founding date are undisclosed. But LinkedIn updates show more than 30 researchers joining recently, including former Nvidia scientist Kamyar Azizzadenesheli and Transformer coauthors Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit as founding advisers. General Agents’ public website, product updates, and job postings remain live, and its India-based training team lead has also moved to the Bezos venture. Prior ties between Bezos and Bajaj through biotech ventures (Grail, Xaira) hint at Prometheus’s ambitions in AI-enabled manufacturing across computers, automobiles, and spacecraft.
Industry reaction is mixed. Donely, an Ace competitor, notes that General Agents’ breakthrough was “speed”—its locally run agent operates at near-instantaneous pace, a capability rivals have struggled to match. Some investors welcome the removal of a respected competitor; others fear going head-to-head with a Bezos-funded entrant. Overall, Prometheus’s heavy funding, stealth operations, and consolidation moves position it as a major force in the emerging agentic AI ecosystem.