Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

Jeff Bezos-backed Prometheus raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to build an "artificial general engineer," targeting physical-world automation in heavy engineering and drug design. This signals a major shift: by 2026, capital will flow to AI that bridges digital reasoning with tangible outcomes, reshaping industrial productivity and drug discovery economics.