A company owned by Jeff Bezos has poached an xAI co-founder from a role at OpenAI, as the tech billionaire’s secretive start-up rapidly recruits to pursue its ambition to create AI systems that can transform the industrial sector.
Kyle Kosic has joined Project Prometheus, a code name for the new company led by Bezos and former Google executive Vikram Bajaj, according to people familiar with the matter.
A co-founder of xAI alongside Elon Musk, Kosic led the infrastructure team behind its Colossus supercomputer before returning to his former employer OpenAI in 2024. He will continue to work on AI infrastructure projects at Prometheus, the people said.