June 12, 2026 · 12:40 PM
Forty-One Billion
Jeff Bezos drops Prometheus out of stealth: $12B Series B, $41B valuation, 150 engineers in SF/London/Zurich, building the 'artificial general engineer' to automate physical product design — jet engines to drugs. Same day: SpaceX raises $75B in the largest IPO in history. Bridge: Oracle crashes 12% on a $70B AI capex plan. Tech Beat Daily Episode 17 in Atlanta Trap.
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Jeff Bezos pulls back the curtain on Prometheus: $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, 150 engineers across San Francisco, London, and Zurich, building an "artificial general engineer" — AI that automates physical product design from jet engines to drug compounds. Same day: SpaceX raises $75B in the largest IPO in history, and Oracle crashes 12% on a $70B AI capex plan with a $23.7B free cash flow deficit. Tech Beat Daily Episode 17 wraps it all in a hard Atlanta Trap MV.
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- 1TechCrunch: Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer'
- 2CNBC: Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj open up about Prometheus
- 3GeekWire: Bezos' AI startup Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation
- 4Reuters: SpaceX demolishes IPO records
- 5Reuters: Oracle shares slide as hefty AI spending, debt plans spook investors
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