内容来源：https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-new-ai-company-acquired-agentic-computing-startup/

内容总结：

六月初，科技企业家维克·巴贾杰在旧金山米其林二星餐厅Saison组织了一场非公开晚宴，与记者及科学家探讨人工智能。参会者中包括曾任职DeepMind和特斯拉的资深研究员谢吉尔·奥泽尔。公开记录显示，次日双方即启动商业合作。

据悉，巴贾杰今年初已与亚马逊董事会执行主席杰夫·贝佐斯共同创立人工智能项目"普罗米修斯"，获62亿美元资金支持。知情人士透露，该项目致力于开发应用于计算机、汽车及航天器制造的AI系统，目前已招募逾百名员工。

《纽约时报》近日首次披露该项目由贝佐斯与巴贾杰担任联席CEO，但其收购奥泽尔创立的"通用智能体"公司一事此前未获报道。企业文件显示，在旧金山晚宴次日，巴贾杰即成立实体启动收购程序，四日后完成合并。被收购公司现已迁址至巴贾杰主导的生物科技孵化器Foresite Labs总部。

值得注意的是，"通用智能体"联合创始人威廉·高斯在收购完成后，于社交媒体表露对制造业的浓厚兴趣。同时，包括奥泽尔、高斯在内的近四十名专业人士已在领英更新其就职信息，显示加入贝佐斯旗下这一新项目。

该初创公司去年推出的"王牌"智能体引发行业关注。演示视频显示，该工具能在15秒内完成从下载图片到跨应用传输的全流程。竞争对手Donely公司CEO坦言："通用智能体突破性的速度优势，或是吸引普罗米修斯全资收购的关键。"

（注：根据要求已省略消息来源说明，行文采用符合中文读者习惯的短句结构和专业表述，对英文材料中的文化专有名词进行了本土化转译，如"Agentic AI"译为"智能体"）

中文翻译：

六月初，科技企业家维克拉姆·巴贾杰在旧金山包下米其林二星餐厅Saison，举办了一场非公开晚宴，与记者和数位科学家探讨人工智能。与会者中包括临时受邀的谢吉尔·奥泽尔，他曾在DeepMind和特斯拉担任高级研究职务。公开记录显示，次日这两人便踏上了合作之路。

巴贾杰当晚未提及的是，今年早些时候他已与亚马逊董事会执行主席杰夫·贝佐斯联手启动名为"普罗米修斯计划"的人工智能新项目。据两位了解内情但无权公开讨论的知情人士透露，该项目已获得包括贝佐斯在内的62亿美元资金支持，致力于开发能支持计算机、汽车乃至航天器制造的AI系统。

该项目已招募逾百名员工，包括奥泽尔及其在"通用智能体"公司的数位前同事——这家由奥泽尔创立的AI初创企业已被普罗米修斯计划收购。虽然《纽约时报》上周首度披露了该项目细节，但收购交易此前从未见诸报端。

《连线》杂志获取的特拉华州公司备案文件显示，曾联合创立Alphabet旗下健康科学公司Verily的巴贾杰，在旧金山晚宴次日清晨便成立实体收购通用智能体公司，四天后完成合并。交易条款尚未公开。

记录显示通用智能体公司的新地址位于巴贾杰主导的生物科技孵化器Foresite Labs旧金山总部。据知情人士透露，巴贾杰与2021年卸任亚马逊CEO的贝佐斯早有交集，后者曾投资其参与创立或运营的Grail、Xaira Therapeutics等生物科技企业。

巴贾杰与奥泽尔均未回应置评请求。此前投资通用智能体公司的Mythos风投及承办六月晚宴的Foresite Labs亦保持沉默。

收购完成两日后，通用智能体联合创始人、前OpenAI研究科学家威廉·加斯在社交媒体发文，寻求结识美国制造业人士。"渴望深入理解这个领域，实地参观工厂"，他在推文中写道。

《纽约时报》报道刊发后，加斯、奥泽尔等约三十余人更新了领英档案，标注其与贝佐斯创投项目的关联，其中多人同时供职于Foresite Labs。

关于普罗米修斯计划的核心信息仍扑朔迷离——创立日期、注册名称与总部地址均未公开。但六月的晚宴提供了重要线索。

领英资料显示，当晚至少另有两位特邀嘉宾已于今年初悄然加入该项目，包括前英伟达高级研究科学家卡姆亚尔·阿齐扎德内什利。而因故缺席晚宴的两位前谷歌研究员——曾合著知名AI论文的阿希什·瓦斯瓦尼与雅各布·乌什科雷特，现已成为该项目的创始顾问，同时继续运营各自初创企业。所有涉及的研究人员均未回应采访请求。

竞速之道

奥泽尔去年创立的通用智能体公司于今年四月推出首款技术产品。被称作"实时计算机领航员"的Ace能接管计算机，根据用户指令执行操作。这类被AI行业称为"计算机智能体"的工具，可实现跨应用程序的笔记本电脑日常任务自动化。

产品发布时的演示视频显示，Ace能在15秒内从谷歌下载图片并通过iMessage发送给指定联系人。

Ace如何融入普罗米修斯计划的蓝图尚不明朗。通用智能体公司的公开数据显示，截至本月仍在持续发布新版Ace。其官网与招聘页面依然活跃，而据领英档案显示，协助训练Ace的印度团队负责人也已加入普罗米修斯。

开发竞品Ace的Donely公司联合创始人兼CEO哈沙·阿贝古纳塞克拉透露，他从奥泽尔初创企业的投资人处获悉此次收购。这笔交易对Donely而言喜忧参半：部分潜在投资者乐见备受瞩目的竞争对手退场，另一些人则担忧若Ace成为普罗米修斯的核心组件，将直面贝佐斯的竞争压力。

"值得普罗米修斯全盘收购，说明通用智能体必有独到之处。"阿贝古纳塞克拉指出，"他们早期突破的核心是速度——Ace能以光速在计算机上运行。我们钻研六个月仍未达到这个境界。"

英文来源：

In early June, tech entrepreneur Vik Bajaj took over Saison, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in San Francisco, for an off-the-record dinner to talk about AI with journalists and a handful of scientists. In attendance was Sherjil Ozair, a late addition who had previously held senior research roles at DeepMind and Tesla. The following day, Bajaj and Ozair were on their way to making a deal, public records show.
Bajaj didn’t mention it at the dinner, but earlier this year he had begun working with Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos on a new AI venture called Project Prometheus. Backed by $6.2 billion in funding, including from Bezos, Project Prometheus is working on AI systems that can support the manufacturing of computers, cars, and even spacecraft, according to two people familiar with the startup who were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The project has brought on over 100 employees, including Ozair and a handful of colleagues who previously worked at his agentic AI startup General Agents, which has now been acquired by Project Prometheus. Last week, The New York Times revealed the first details about Prometheus, including that Bezos and Bajaj will serve as co-CEOs. But its acquisition of General Agents hasn’t been previously reported.
Corporate filings in Delaware obtained by WIRED show that Bajaj, who previously cofounded Alphabet’s health sciences company Verily, formed an entity to acquire General Agents the morning after the San Francisco dinner. It merged with Ozair’s startup four days later. Terms of the deal could not be learned.
The records list General Agents’ new address as the San Francisco headquarters of Foresite Labs, a Bajaj-led biotech incubator. He and Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021, have previously been connected through the billionaire’s investments in biotech companies Bajaj helped start or run, such as Grail and Xaira Therapeutics, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Bajaj and Ozair did not respond to requests for comment. Mythos Ventures, which had invested in General Agents prior to the acquisition, declined to comment. Foresite Labs, which hosted the June dinner, also declined to comment.
Two days after the acquisition, General Agents cofounder and former OpenAI research scientist William Guss posted a request on social media for introductions to people working in US manufacturing. “I’d love to talk really trying to understand the space and see some factories :)” Guss wrote.
After The New York Times story was published, Guss, Ozair, and about three dozen other people updated their LinkedIn profiles to list their affiliation with the Bezos venture. Several of those people also work at Foresite Labs.
Details about Prometheus remain limited. Its founding date, formal name, and headquarters haven’t been publicly identified. But the dinner Bajaj hosted in June provided other clues.
At least two other featured guests that night, including former Nvidia senior research scientist Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, quietly joined Prometheus early this year, their newly updated LinkedIn profiles show.
Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, two former Google researchers who coauthored a famous AI paper, ended up being unable to attend the dinner. But both are now founding advisers to Prometheus while running their own startups, according to LinkedIn data and a person familiar with the matter. None of the researchers responded to requests for comment.
Built for Speed
Ozair established General Agents last year, and the San Francisco startup released its first technology this past April. Described as “a real-time computer pilot,” Ace takes over a computer and carries out actions based on the user’s prompts. It’s part of a class of tools the AI industry calls computer agents, which can automate daily tasks on a laptop that span across different apps.
One demo video from the launch shows Ace downloading an image from Google and sending it to someone over iMessage in under 15 seconds.
How Ace fits into Prometheus’ plans is still murky. New versions of Ace continue to be released as recently as this month, according to public data from General Agents. The company’s website and job postings remain online, and the leader of a team in India helping train Ace also joined Prometheus, according to their LinkedIn profile
Harsha Abegunasekara, cofounder and CEO of Donely, which makes a competitor to Ace, says he learned of the General Agents acquisition from an investor in Ozair’s startup. The deal has been a mixed bag for Donely. Some potential investors are pleased that a well-regarded rival may be off the board, while others are worried about going up against Bezos if Ace becomes a crucial part of what Prometheus develops.
“There is something important there for Prometheus to get the entire company,” Abegunasekara says. “What General Agents really cracked early on is speed—Ace runs on your computer at light speed. We’ve been working on that for six months and haven’t achieved it yet.”