Neil Freiman

Whereas OpenAI and Anthropic are aiming to build artificial general intelligence, Bezos wants to build what he calls an artificial general engineer to supercharge production lines with superhuman-level efficiency.

To help him get there, Bezos has enlisted a co-CEO, Veek Bajaj, a former executive working on moonshots at Google X. Together, Bezos and Bajaj say they've raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation, with investors including Bezos himself, JP Morgan, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs.

They've already hired 150 employees around the world as they move out of stealth and get ready to compete with a number of rivals hoping to usher in a robotics revolution.

Maybe that $12 billion can help.

Bezos had also some interesting things to say about work and labor in this AI future and how Prometheus and he plays into it all.

I don't think it would play well at graduation and at colleges or graduation speeches because he said that the pessimism around AI among young people is, quote,

the opposite of reality.

And he had this more optimistic take on labor in the future.

He actually said, we're going to have a labor shortage in the economy.

Instead, you know, there's been all these worries about robots taking people's jobs and chatbots taking people's jobs.

Well, he said, actually, we're not going to have enough people to do all the jobs.

And he said that there's going to be so much wealth created because of this industrial, third industrial revolution that he's helping bring about.

Because if you just reduce the costs of creating jobs,

anything, then you're going to build more of everything, make cheaper things, make more things.

There's just going to be more to build, more to consume.

There's more wealth around.

He said that all societal wealth is driven by invention.

6,000 years ago, someone invented the plow.

We all got wealthier.

Much later, someone invented the steam engine.