Adia in investment talks with Bezos-led Project Prometheus

• Project capitalising on tech disruption
• Adia in early talks, FT says
• More than 100 staff hired

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia) is reportedly in early talks to take part in fundraising by the artificial intelligence company co-led by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Project Prometheus is raising tens of billions of dollars to buy companies impacted by AI, with the hope of capitalising on the disruption the tech will cause.

It is targeting the automobile, spacecraft and computer manufacturing and engineering sectors.

The Emirati sovereign wealth fund is among those in early talks with Project Prometheus as part of that fundraising effort, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Bezos became co-CEO of Prometheus Labs in late 2025, his first formal operational role since stepping down as Amazon CEO in 2021.

Details are scant about Project Prometheus, but in November 2025 it was reported that the company already had more than 100 staff, including senior hires from rivals at Google DeepMind, OpenAI and others.

Adia is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, with more than $1 trillion assets under management.
 
The fund invested $65 million in Chinese AI company MiniMax as part of its IPO in late 2025.

In September last year, it increased its investment in US data centre operator Vantage Data Centers to support its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.

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