Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing StartupNEWS | 29 November 2025In early June, tech entrepreneur Vik Bajaj took over Saison, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in San Francisco, for an off-the-record dinner to talk about AI with journalists and a handful of scientists. In attendance was Sherjil Ozair, a late addition who had previously held senior research roles at DeepMind and Tesla. The following day, Bajaj and Ozair were on their way to making a deal, public records show.
Bajaj didn’t mention it at the dinner, but earlier this year he had begun working with Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos on a new AI venture called Project Prometheus. Backed by $6.2 billion in funding, including from Bezos, Project Prometheus is working on AI systems that can support the manufacturing of computers, cars, and even spacecraft, according to two people familiar with the startup who were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The project has brought on over 100 employees, including Ozair and a handful of colleagues who previously worked at his agentic AI startup General Agents, which has now been acquired by Project Prometheus. Last week, The New York Times revealed the first details about Prometheus, including that Bezos and Bajaj will serve as co-CEOs. But its acquisition of General Agents hasn’t been previously reported.
Corporate filings in Delaware obtained by WIRED show that Bajaj, who previously cofounded Alphabet’s health sciences company Verily, formed an entity to acquire General Agents the morning after the San Francisco dinner. It merged with Ozair’s startup four days later. Terms of the deal could not be learned.
The records list General Agents’ new address as the San Francisco headquarters of Foresite Labs, a Bajaj-led biotech incubator. He and Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021, have previously been connected through the billionaire’s investments in biotech companies Bajaj helped start or run, such as Grail and Xaira Therapeutics, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Bajaj and Ozair did not respond to requests for comment. Mythos Ventures, which had invested in General Agents prior to the acquisition, declined to comment. Foresite Labs, which hosted the June dinner, also declined to comment.
Two days after the acquisition, General Agents cofounder and former OpenAI research scientist William Guss posted a request on social media for introductions to people working in US manufacturing. “I’d love to talk really trying to understand the space and see some factories :)” Guss wrote.Author: Paresh Dave. Source
