Jeff Bezos launches £4.7bn AI start-up

Jeff Bezos’s Project Prometheus has already raised over $6bn in funding, despite having no known revenue - Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg Jeff Bezos, the billionaire Amazon founder, is returning to business with a $6.2bn (£4.7bn) artificial intelligence (AI) company called Project Prometheus. Mr Bezos will be co-chief executive of the AI start-up that plans to use the technology to improve the manufacturing of computers, aerospace parts and cars. It is the first chief executive role for Mr Bezos since st ...