{"id":1031329,"date":"2026-08-27T07:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031329"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:16:21","slug":"the-ai-founders-who-walked-away-from-bezos-backed-prometheus-to-model-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/the-ai-founders-who-walked-away-from-bezos-backed-prometheus-to-model-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI founders who walked away from Bezos-backed Prometheus to model the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they&#8217;ve built on their own: an AI model that can \u200btake in and produce information so vast that a lone computer might \u200bnot handle it. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s flagship models can typically consume &#8211; like reading Tolstoy&#8217;s &#8220;War and Peace&#8221; not once but 5 million times in one sitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they&#8217;ve built on their own: an AI model that can \u200btake in and produce information so vast that a lone computer might \u200bnot 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&#8217;s flagship models can typically consume &#8211; like reading Tolstoy&#8217;s &#8220;War and Peace&#8221; not once but 5 million times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031352,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031329\/revisions\/1031352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}