SAN FRANCISCO — Prometheus raised $12 billion in a recent funding round, which valued the company at $41 billion. This new funding follows an initial funding round of $6.2 billion that the company completed late last year.

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, and Jeff Bezos provided capital for the recent funding. Bezos and Vik Bajaj serve as co-founders and co-chief executive officers of the company. Bajaj previously co-founded Verily, a life sciences research group.

The company develops physical artificial intelligence software designed to automate the design and manufacturing of complex systems. The company intends to deploy its technology across the robotics, drug design, and manufacturing sectors. Bezos said, "What Prometheus seeks to do is to offer a set of tools that dramatically accelerates that invention loop."

A substantial portion of the newly raised capital will fund computing infrastructure and data generation. Bezos noted that the work the company is undertaking is very compute-intensive and requires the creation of data. Bezos said, "Significant productivity in the economy is going to raise the standard of living. People who today have two-earner households, they’ll become one-earner households. Maybe some people who are working overtime will stop working overtime."

The company maintains office locations in San Francisco, London, and Zurich. The company currently employs 150 people. Bezos indicated that companies building sophisticated devices, such as rocket engines, could greatly benefit from its technology, citing Blue Origin as an example.

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