Project Prometheus Acquires Agentic Computing Startup General Agents in Strategic AI Manufacturing Push

Seattle – Jeff Bezos’s $6.2 billion artificial intelligence venture has moved swiftly to strengthen its position in physical-world AI.

Bezos-Backed Project Prometheus Snaps Up General Agents

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Project Prometheus, the high-profile AI company co-led by Jeff Bezos and former Google X and Verily executive Vik Bajaj, has acquired San Francisco-based startup General Agents. The deal, confirmed via corporate filings and sources close to the transaction, integrates cutting-edge “agentic computing” technology into Prometheus’s ambitious roadmap for AI-driven manufacturing.

From Stealth to Acquisition in Under Two Weeks

Unveiled just over a week ago with $6.2 billion in committed funding—largely from Bezos himself—Project Prometheus has already recruited nearly 100 researchers from OpenAI, Meta, and other frontier labs. The rapid acquisition of General Agents marks the venture’s first major external move and underscores its urgency to dominate the emerging field of autonomous physical AI.

What General Agents Brings to the Table

Founded in 2024 by AI researcher Salman Ozair, General Agents developed Ace, a real-time “computer pilot” capable of autonomously executing complex, multi-step tasks across software and simulated environments. Trained on video, language, and action data with dramatically lower compute requirements than traditional frontier models, Ace excels at low-latency decision-making—critical for real-world manufacturing and robotics applications.

Accelerating AI-Powered Factories and Space Hardware

Prometheus aims to build AI systems that design and produce physical goods, from electric-vehicle components to spacecraft parts for Blue Origin. The addition of General Agents’ agentic framework is expected to supercharge development of “world models” that predict and optimize physical outcomes, potentially shortening R&D cycles in high-precision industries by months or even years.

A Coup in the Race for Physical AI

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Rivals such as Periodic Labs and Thinking Machines Lab are pursuing similar robotics- and agent-focused approaches, but Prometheus’s massive funding and direct involvement from Bezos give it a clear edge. Industry insiders describe the General Agents acquisition as a strategic masterstroke in the intensifying battle for leadership in autonomous industrial AI.

Financial terms remain undisclosed, but General Agents founder Salman Ozair and several team members have already joined Project Prometheus as founding advisers. As artificial intelligence shifts from digital assistants to factory floors and lunar assembly lines, Project Prometheus is positioning itself at the forefront of what Bezos calls “AI that builds the future.”