A company by Jeff Bezos got Kyle Cosic, co-founder of xAI, from OpenAI. Kosic joined Project Prometheus, the new company led by Bezos and Vikram Bajaj, where he will work on artificial intelligence infrastructure projects. The move is part of the harsh competition of artificial intelligence laboratories for top talent. Prometheus targets systems operating in the natural world, focuses on the industrial sector and plans to raise tens of billions of dollars for investments in companies that will be influenced by artificial intelligence.
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A company owned by Jeff Bezos acquired a co-founder of xAI from a position in OpenAI, as the technology billionaire's new business quickly hires staff to pursue his ambition to create artificial intelligence systems that can transform the industrial sector.
Kyle Cosic joined Project Prometheus, a code name for the new company led by Bezos and former Google executive, Vikram Bajaj, according to what the Financial Times reports in their related report.
Co-founder of xAI along with Elon Musk, Kosic led the infrastructure team behind supercomputer Colossus before returning to his former employer, OpenAI, in 2024. He will continue working on artificial intelligence infrastructure in Prometheus, the sources of the publication said.
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His move is the last in a dizzying round of executive work changes, as artificial intelligence workshops compete hard for top talent, often offering significant wages to attract staff from competitors. Musk has seen all 11 co-founders in xAI leaving, several of whom left in recent months, and some with complaints about Musk's administration. The last two, Manuel Croys and Ross Nordin, left the company in late March, according to what Business Insider reports.
Meanwhile, Prometheus has hired hundreds of employees at its headquarters in San Francisco and its offices in London and Zurich. He has focused on hiring engineers, researchers in Artificial Intelligence and people with experience in «construction of mass infrastructure», stated an anonymous source to the Financial Times.
The new business, launched by Bezos last year, works on Artificial Intelligence systems that can operate in the natural world and exceed systems based on languages behind chatbots, such as ChatGPT or coding tools such as Claude Code.
The company focuses particularly on the industrial sector. It envisions a model that can understand the laws of physics and is trained in data from specific sectors, such as jet engine design.
Tens of billions of dollars
Financial Times sources noted that the company already had «collect the largest dataset on engineering» and how such systems operate.
Prometheus also plans to pool shares in companies active in sectors such as engineering, aviation, architecture and design. These agreements will include collecting data from these companies, which could be used to improve the Startup Artificial Intelligence model. Bezos and Bajaj personally lead Prometheus' efforts to raise tens of billions of dollars or more for one «permanent capital vehicle» which would acquire equity in companies that are likely to be disrupted by Artificial Intelligence in the future.
A source of the Financial Times compared it to a «Berkshire Hathaway holding company». «Prometheus wants to support the progress of these industries, which will eventually happen with Artificial Intelligence, but does not want to last 10 years»The source ends.
Prometheus plans to have its staff working in these companies, often known as «advanced development engineers». The investment and contribution of staff, the company hopes, will improve profit margins and operations in companies.
The Artificial Intelligence industry has difficulty creating models that really understand the physical space due to a lack of high quality data representing the real world, instead of more easily available text and computer code.
The current efforts of competitors include video data training and simulations to mimic real environments.
Prometheus also discusses investments in this vehicle with state investment funds, including from Singapore and Gulf states, Financial Times reports.
Source: OT
