Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI

Jeff Bezos is reportedly raising $100 billion for a new fund to acquire companies in major industrial sectors like aerospace, chipmaking, and defense, then modernize them using AI. The effort is tied to his AI startup Project Prometheus, co-founded with former Google executive Vik Bajaj, which launched with $6.2 billion to build AI models for manufacturing and engineering.