Vik Bajaj
Co-CEO of Prometheus; CEO of Foresite Labs
Scientist and executive who co-founded Google Life Sciences (now Verily), was chief science officer of GRAIL, and leads the AI incubator Foresite Labs. Co-founder and co-CEO of Prometheus with Jeff Bezos, and an adjunct professor at Stanford's School of Medicine.
Key arguments & positions
- Describes Prometheus's goal as building "artificial engineers" — AI that learns from real-world trial and error to design and manufacture physical products.
Accomplishments
- Co-founder and co-CEO of Prometheus with Jeff Bezos; co-founder and CEO of the AI incubator Foresite Labs.
- Co-founded Google Life Sciences (now Verily) and was its chief science officer until 2016; later chief science officer of GRAIL. Adjunct professor at Stanford's School of Medicine; Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT.
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