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Jeff Bezos just bet 12 billion dollars on an AI that does engineering
Jeff Bezos is backing a new AI company called Prometheus. It just raised 12 billion dollars, which values the company at around 41 billion. That makes it one of the largest funding rounds an AI startup has ever pulled in.
Here is what makes it different from the AI most of us use day to day. Prometheus is not trying to build a better chatbot. The team calls their goal an artificial general engineer. The idea is an AI that can design real, physical things, the kind of work human engineers do. Think machines, factory parts, even new medicines.
Most AI you have heard about lives on a screen and works with words and pictures. This is a bet that the next wave of AI will design objects in the real world, not just talk about them.
Worth a reality check. A giant funding round is a promise, not a product. Nobody has seen what this can actually build yet. But the size of the bet, and the name behind it, is why it got so much attention this week.
When you picture AI five years from now, do you see it mostly on your screen, or out building things in the real world? Tell me in the comments.
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Jeff Bezos just bet 12 billion dollars on an AI that does engineering
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