Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know The headline — On Thursday 11 June 2026, Project Prometheus, Jeff Bezos's industrial and physical-AI startup, confirmed a $12B round at a valuation of roughly $41B (per axios.com, with corroborating coverage from geekwire.com and cnbc.com). The cumulative figure — Total funding now tops $18B, once you add an earlier launch round of around $6.2B. Treat $12B as the new money and ~$41B as the valuation — several outlets blur the two. The people — The company is co-led by Bezos, who serves as co-CEO, and Stanford scientist Vik Bajaj. The mission — Prometheus builds AI tools to design and manufacture physical products across computing hardware, automotive and aerospace. This is "physical AI", not another chatbot. Pro tip When a raise this size lands in a category, the…
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