Jeff Bezos flies to Paris after Prometheus raises $12B in AI funding

Jeff Bezos flew from Swanborough Farm Airstrip in the UK to Paris-Le Bourget on June 15, a journey of less than an hour aboard his Gulfstream G700 (N11AF). The brief hop across the Channel comes just days after a whirlwind week that saw Bezos co-announce a $12 billion Series B for his physical AI startup Prometheus, in San Francisco on June 11, per TechCrunch.

Prometheus, which builds an “artificial general engineer” for automating design and manufacturing, now operates offices in London and Zurich alongside its San Francisco headquarters. Bezos’s European swing this week—starting with a Paris arrival on June 10 and a London visit on June 14—strongly suggests follow-up meetings with those overseas teams or potential investors in the region.

The trip continues a pattern of frequent transatlantic travel for Bezos, who also juggles commitments to Blue Origin (recently vowing to resume New Glenn launches by year’s end after a pad explosion, per Spaceflight Now) and his role as Amazon executive chairman. While the specific Paris agenda remains unconfirmed, the convergence of Prometheus’s colossal funding round and Bezos’s presence in Europe points to a deliberate business itinerary.