Jeff Bezos’s AI startup acquires agent capable of controlling your PC

Jeff Bezos has sparked fresh industry buzz after his new AI initiative, “Project Prometheus,” acquired General Agents, a company known for building a powerful PC-controlling autonomous agent.

The move marks one of the most aggressive steps yet in Amazon co-founder’s push to reshape how artificial intelligence (AI) interacts with both digital tools and physical industries.

The acquisition brings in “Ace,” an advanced agent developed by former Google DeepMind and OpenAI researchers.

Notably, Ace can perform intricate computer tasks such as video editing, booking workflows, data transfers, and cross-app navigation, outperforming several rival AI systems in internal testing.

However, what sets Ace apart is its “video-language-action” architecture, a model that not only understands instructions but also interprets visual input to execute actions, a capability seen as a breakthrough for industrial automation.

Project Prometheus, backed by over $6.2 billion in funding and driven by Bezos’s ambition to modernise manufacturing, plans to integrate Ace’s technology into high-stakes sectors like aerospace, automotive, and computing hardware.

With the General Agents’ team joining full-time, analysts noted that this acquisition signals Bezos’s intent to create AI that goes far beyond chatbots.