Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive
by rickdeckard
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- Wouldn't be surprised if the funding is based on a circular investment of some AI chipset vendor to consume the compute power of the chipsets AWS is buying.
"We buy this amount of chips at price xx, you guarantee us utilization in part by investing in an AI company we will create"
- And for his sin of stealing fire from the gods he’ll be chained to a rock and an eagle will eat his liver every day for the rest of eternity.
- > The new company has until now kept a low profile, and when it was started is not even clear.
Any more details? Where is it located? Who is working there,
For $6.2 billion raised I’m surprised their aren’t more details
- From the TechCrunch article;
> its work will resemble that of Periodic Labs, which is building technology to speed up scientific research by simulating the physical world to train AI models.
Will be interesting to see how far simulation gets you vs actual embodiment via robots, etc.
by breakpointalpha
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- Everyone knows that the best companies have two CEOs.
- Despite the critiques that is something worthwhile I can understand, maybe there is a time in your life you want to be involved in something big, but not 100% like you were at your prime you have the opportunity to do it, so why not. You remain engaged. I prefer seeing that than doing nothing of something useless.
by michaelbuckbee
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- Notably, Amazon has already invested $8 billion in Anthropic/Claude, so I'm hoping this is actually something wildly different and with a different approach.
- A lot of negative posts here, but AI to advance science seems like basically the best possible use case. The more ultrawealthy people who want to throw billions at it, the better.
by trollbridge
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- Well, at least it won’t be a fake nonprofit… I hope.
by randycupertino
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- I feel like he's too distracted by his celebrity lifestyle these days to really focus on running a company.
He just paid for Kris Jenner's 70th birthday party at his house where they had the cops called on them:
https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/kris-jenn...
and he disinvited Elon Musk (lol): https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/elon-...
Here he is out showboating at the Oscars, Vanity Fair parties, the white house, in Hollywood, in Monaco, Paris Fashion Week, Sun Valley, Milan, NYC, various galas all in the last year:
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-fa...
by laidoffamazon
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- I have a weird sense that this is a way to get his kids that are technical into a family business without having them work at a company that isn't considered prestigious
- Is "A.I." NYT house style? Looks rather jarring.
- Everything from A to I
- I read "co-defendant" for a second there. Oh well.
- Engineers were modeled after him?
- Recap for those before the paywall:
New AI co, Bezos as co-CEO (alongside Vik Bajaj, ex-Google X)
$6.2b in funding
Nearly 100 employees
AI + real world scientific experiments, for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft
by ignoramous
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- https://archive.is/ZhmTd
- Jeff Bezos as a CO-CEO sounds like a corporate structure recipe for disaster.
- I wonder what the dynamic between this and the Amazon Alexa team will look like, if there will be any in the first place...
by outside1234
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- He saw all of the grifting at OpenAI and said to himself: "I can do that!"
by conartist6
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- Just before the AI bubble goes pop too. I think by my estimates there's three more months left...
- Not many people can do the "Just-do-what-Musk-does" playbook, but this will no doubt be a good little bunse for him.
by insane_dreamer
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- YAAS (Yet Another AI Startup). Yawn.
- In the fires of Mount Doom, a 6th frontier lab was secretly forged. For none could resist being a CEO of an AI startup before the music stops.
- > Co-Chief Executive
In other words he wants to seagull manage the place.
- Co-CEO. So he gets to boast about being CEO of an AI company at dinner parties while leaving someone else to do the actual work.
- > Called Project Prometheus
What is it about tech people and being unable to come up with original names?
Every company I have worked for has had two dozen internal tools and projects called "Prometheus".
- https://archive.ph/K1sNB
by code_for_monkey
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by baobabKoodaa
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- So we now have one AI startup run by Jeff Bezos and another AI startup run by Beff Jezos. What a weird timeline.
by kilroy123
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- Honestly, why? Why not just focus on Blue Origin?
I don't get this new Musk-like tendency to run multiple ventures instead of focusing on one very tough mission.
by johnnyApplePRNG
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- I think it's actually going to be healthy for the ecosystem on the whole. The more competition, the better.
by dominikposmyk
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- Elon's comment: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1990479697793491195
by googlywoogly
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- Amazon itself has become so corrupted and disfunctional that all of their internal AI efforts amount to just burning billions for bottom-of-the-barrel results[0]. I'm not surprised that 5 person startups are building better AI products than all of Amazon, or that Bezos decided to start an AI company outside of Amazon.
[0]https://labs.amazon.science/
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