Jeff Bezos describes his $38B startup Prometheus for the first time: ‘Nothing to do with robotics’

Jeff Bezos during a CNBC Squawk Box interview at Blue Origin’s Rocket Park in Merritt Island, Fla., on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. When CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin described Jeff Bezos’ startup Project Prometheus as being “really about AI robotics” in an interview on Wednesday, the Amazon founder interrupted with a correction. “It’s a little premature for me to talk about it, but we are not — we have nothing to do with robotics,” Bezos said.