Jeff Bezos is branching out.

The 61-year-old Amazon founder is investing $6.2 billion into a new AI company called Project Prometheus, and he’ll serve as the startup’s co-CEO, according to the New York Times .

The company, which the New York Times has called one of the most well-financed early-stage startups in the world, will focus on building AI to assist engineering and manufacturing operations across industries.

Bezos’ co-founder and co-CEO in the venture is physicist and chemist Vik Bajaj. He is best known for his work at Google X, the company’s moonshot factory that works on “ radical new technology .” The lab is behind early support for Google-backed companies like robotaxi giant Waymo and life sciences company Verily, which Bajaj co-founded in 2015. Bajaj was most recently

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