Billionaire Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus came calling with a multimillion-dollar offer and more than $2 billion in planned funding. Two AI researchers chose to walk away — and build an entirely different kind of AI instead.
Reuters reported, citing documents reviewed by its reporters, that AI researchers Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik were offered key roles in Prometheus, the AI venture co-founded by Bezos and biotech entrepreneur Vik Bajaj.
