The AI founders who walked away from Bezos-backed Prometheus to model the universe

A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they’ve built on their own: an AI model that can ​take in and produce information so vast that a lone computer might ​not handle it.

Their company, Accelerated Understanding Inc, says it has developed a different type of AI model that in tests handled 5 trillion pieces of data in a single prompt. That is some 5 million times the size of what Anthropic and Google’s flagship models can typically consume – like reading Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” not once but 5 million times in one sitting.