General Agents CEO Sherjil Ozair and a handful of colleagues from that company have joined Project Prometheus, Wired reported wednesday (Nov. 26), citing corporate filings.
Ozair founded General Agents in 2024, and the company released its first technology in April: a computer agent called Ace that performs tasks based on the userS prompts, according to the report.
General Agents’ website said the company’s mission is to “liberate humanity from digital labor.”
“Many routine tasks require only minimal cognitive effort,e.g. filling forms, copying and pasting details from one tool to another, or making and sending reports,” the site said. “Human workers continue to be responsible for many tedious tasks that artificial intelligence is already capable of performing.”
it is not known what Project Prometheus plans to do with Ace, the Wired report said.
Project Prometheus is working on AI systems for use in manufacturing, per the report.
The company’s LinkedIn page has the tagline,”AI for the physical economy.”
It was reported Nov. 17 that Bezos had launched Project Prometheus and will serve as co-CEO of the
Bezos Launches Physical AI Company with Google X Alum Vik Bajaj
Jeff bezos has launched a new company focused on physical AI, with physicist and chemist Vik Bajaj serving as co-founder and co-CEO. Bajaj previously worked with Google co-founder Sergey Brin at google’s X, the innovation lab responsible for developing projects like the Wing drone delivery service and the Waymo self-driving vehicle program. https://www.linkedin.com/in/drvikbajaj
The launch comes as investment and growth in “physical AI” – robotics powered by advanced sensing,perception,and large AI models – rapidly accelerates. Unlike customary automation, physical AI enables machines to handle more complex and adaptable tasks. https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2025/physical-ai-moves-from-automation-to-a-new-workforce-layer/
Several companies are already attracting significant funding in this space. In March, Rerun secured $17 million in seed funding to build a database and cloud data platform specifically designed for physical AI data and workflows.https://rerun.io/ and https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2025/rerun-raises-17-million-for-database-purpose-built-for-physical-ai/
Also in March, Dexterity announced a $95 million funding round to accelerate the development of its physical AI robots, aimed at boosting productivity and addressing labor shortages. https://www.dexterity.ai/ and https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2025/dexterity-raises-95-million-dollars-develop-physical-ai-robots/