With a new company, Jeff Bezos will become a CEO again
November 17, 2025
Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s richest and most famous tech CEOs, but he hasn’t actually been a CEO of anything since 2021. That’s now changing as he takes on the role of co-CEO of a new AI company, according to a New York Times report citing three people familiar with the company.
Grandiosely named Project Prometheus (and not to be confused with the NASA project of the same name), the company will focus on using AI to pursue breakthroughs in research, engineering, manufacturing, and other fields that are dubbed part of “the physical economy”—in contrast to the software applications that are likely the first thing most people in the general public think of when they hear “AI.”
Bezos’ co-CEO will be Dr. Vik Bajaj, a chemist and physicist who previously led life sciences work at Google X, an Alphabet-backed research group that worked on speculative projects that could lead to more product categories. (For example, it developed technologies that would later underpin Google’s Waymo service.) Bajaj also worked at Verily, another Alphabet-backed research group focused on life sciences, and Foresite Labs, an incubator for new AI companies.
This is speculation, but Bajaj resume’s suggests he may lead the R&D efforts at Project Prometheus while Bezos focuses on the logistics and the business side.
Project Prometheus already has nearly 100 employees, having poached researchers from the AI divisions at big tech firms like OpenAI and Meta. It appears it may compete directly with Periodic Labs and other companies in the physical and research AI space, but its chief distinction is its level of funding: Project Prometheus is launching with $6.2 billion in funding, at least partially from Bezos himself. That’s more than most of the companies it will compete with.
Bezos founded Amazon in the ’90s and turned a website for ordering books into a sprawling, multi-industry company perhaps best known for its logistics dominance. Since then, he has attracted more public attention for his lavish personal life, though he has also held a leadership role at Blue Origin, a space company that competes with Elon Musk’s Space X. Bezos’ title at Blue Origin is founder but not CEO.
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