Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the former co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences unit, announced it raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation.

Jeff Bezos is back. The Amazon founder has cut his retirement short to spearhead his new startup, Prometheus, a new AI venture that is instantly forcing its way into the same conversation as OpenAI an...

Backed by more than $12 billion in funding, the company intends to create new engineering tools using many of the techniques used to build chatbots and other A.I. technologies.