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A $6.2 billion seed round. For a company that hasn't launched a product.

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Felix Ghauri

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A $6.2 billion seed round. For a company that hasn't launched a product.

A $6.2 billion seed round. For a company that hasn’t launched a product.

But look at who just took the CEO job.

Jeff Bezos is back. Not at Amazon, but as co-CEO of a new startup: ‘Project Prometheus’.

He is hiring the best minds from OpenAI and Meta to solve the hardest problem in tech: Physical AI.

The goal isn’t a chatbot. It is a model that understands gravity, friction, and manufacturing tolerances.

This is a convergence we’ve been tracking. From the orbital manufacturing ambitions of Blue Origin to the massive compute engines of NVIDIA, the infrastructure for this new era is being laid.

For decades, titans like Siemens and Honeywell have owned the factory floor. But this investment signals that the Exponential Age is moving from silicon chips to steel girders.

Software ate the world. Now it is starting to build it.

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Felix Ghauri

Applied AI Practitioner · Founder, Futures Forum

Felix helps organisations navigate AI and exponential change. He writes about technology, geopolitics, and the future of work.

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