Elon Musk takes swipe at Jeff Bezos over $6.2 billion AI Project Prometheus

Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has taken a swipe at Jeff Bezos as Amazon founder recently unveiled a $6.2 billion new AI startup named Project Prometheus.

In a recent post on X, Elon Musk, the founder of AI firm xAI, mocked Bezos, calling him a “copycat” accompanied with a caption “Haha no way” with laughing emoji.

The criticism came as Bezos announced Project Prometheus, a newly unveiled artificial intelligence startup mainly focused on engineering and manufacturing for computers, spacecraft and automobiles.

This is not the first time that Musk took a dig at Amazon’s founder. He made the similar remarks when Bezos unveiled plans to manufacture internet-beaming satellites in a competition with Musk’s SpaceX and to bring a self-driving car startup, Zoox, to challenge Tesla’s dominance.

According to the New York Times, Project Prometheus has already received funding worth $6.2 billion from Jeff Bezos, as he takes on the role of co-CEO at the project.

The startup will be co-led by former Google X scientist Vik Bajaj, aiming to apply AI to the physical economy.

Moreover, the company has been in the process of recruiting nearly 100 tech experts from DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta to develop AI systems in a bid to expedite material research, robotics, and design processes.