Jeff Bezos launched an AI startup called Prometheus in November with $6.2 billion. Now he's raised another $12 billion. He wants you to know they're not being secretive about it.
That's eighteen point two billion dollars for a company that apparently does something with artificial intelligence. What exactly? F*ck if anyone knows. But Bezos held a press event to clarify that the lack of information is not secrecy. It's strategic transparency. Or transparent strategy. One of those consultant phrases that means "shut up and give me money."
His co-CEO is Vik Bajaj. Two CEOs for one startup. That's like having two captains on the Titanic. Except the iceberg is made of investor capital and the ship is headed straight for it at ramming speed while both captains assure you they're definitely not trying to hide the route.
Bezos could've named this thing anything. He chose Prometheus. The Greek titan who stole fire from the gods and got his liver eaten by an eagle every day for eternity. Solid branding for a company that just vacuumed up twelve billion dollars and refuses to explain what it does. The metaphor writes itself but apparently Bezos missed that day in eighth grade.
Retail traders are already pricing in a Prometheus IPO at a four hundred billion dollar valuation. They've created Reddit threads analyzing Bezos' body language in the announcement video. One guy posted a fifty-slide deck proving that Prometheus will replace every job on earth by next Thursday. His evidence is a screenshot of Bezos smiling.
We're not being secretive, says the man who raised eighteen billion dollars in six months for an unnamed product with unnamed customers solving unnamed problems. That's not secrecy. That's just billionaire hide and seek where you're hiding money and seeking more money and the retail guy gets eaten by the eagle.
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