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Jeff Bezos' AI Startup Is Now Worth $41 Billion 😱
Gina Acosta
June 12, 2026
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Most people think of NotebookLM as a research assistant, but there's a lot more you can do with it. From turning voice recordings into searchable notes to helping plan meals, there's plenty to explore.
In today's issue, we're sharing 5 NotebookLM use cases you might not know about and how they can help you get more value from the tool.
Let’s jump into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Jeff Bezos’ AI Startup Prometheus Reaches $41 Billion Valuation
OpenAI Considers Price Cuts as Competition with Anthropic Intensifies
AI Tutorial: 5 NotebookLM Use Cases You Probably Haven't Tried Yet
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
PROMETHEUS
Jeff Bezos’ AI Startup Prometheus Reaches $41 Billion Valuation
Prometheus, the industrial AI startup led by Jeff Bezos and former Google executive Vik Bajaj, has raised $12 billion in Series B funding, bringing its valuation to $41 billion and making it one of the most valuable AI startups in the world.
Details:
The company is focused on industrial AI, helping engineers accelerate the design and manufacturing process for complex products such as jet engines, medical devices, and consumer electronics.
Rather than building robots or automating factories directly, Prometheus focuses on using AI to optimize pre-production machinery and processes, such as prototyping. The company aims to build what they call an "artificial general engineer."
Bezos says the goal is to dramatically reduce the time required to move from an idea to a finished product, potentially shrinking development cycles by a factor of ten or more.
Prometheus currently employs around 150 people and operates independently from both Amazon and Blue Origin, despite Bezos being a major backer.
Executives argue that the technology is intended to amplify human engineering talent, making it easier to turn ideas into real-world products rather than replacing engineers altogether.
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The Ultimate Guide for Usage-Based Pricing for SaaS and AI
Implementing usage-based pricing successfully requires more than just a pricing strategy. It requires financial and operational infrastructure capable of handling dynamic pricing models, real-time usage signals, and increasingly complex monetization approaches.
In this guide, you'll learn ⤵
Strategic Advantages + Implementation Guidance
AI Use Cases for Usage-Based Pricing
Insights from SaaS & AI finance leaders on overcoming challenges and maximizing UBP.
OPENAI
OpenAI Considers Price Cuts as Competition with Anthropic Intensifies
OpenAI is reportedly exploring significant price reductions for its AI services as it prepares for a potential pricing battle with Anthropic in the race to attract enterprise customers.
Details:
OpenAI is considering lowering the cost of tokens, the unit used to measure and bill AI usage, as businesses become increasingly sensitive to AI spending.
The discussions are reportedly being driven in part by expectations that Anthropic may also reduce prices, raising the possibility of a broader industry price war.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has acknowledged that AI costs have become a major concern for customers and has indicated the company is looking for ways to deliver more value at lower prices.
The move comes as OpenAI works to strengthen its position in the enterprise market, where Anthropic has recently gained momentum, though some businesses question whether rising AI expenses are truly translating into measurable returns.
AI Tutorial
5 NotebookLM Use Cases You Probably Haven't Tried Yet
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Turn audio recordings into searchable notes
Upload voice memos, meeting recordings, lectures, interviews, or podcasts and ask NotebookLM to generate a clean transcript. It will give you readable text along with a short summary and the recurring themes it noticed. This makes hours-long recordings much easier to review later.
Make sense of documents in other languages
You can upload PDFs in any language and ask NotebookLM to explain them in your preferred language. Because it keeps the full document as context, it can provide more natural translations and answer follow-up questions about specific sections.
Generate presentations
Upload notes, reports, or scripts and use the Slide Deck feature to generate a structured presentation with slide titles, key points, and visual suggestions.
Input a prompt like "Create a deck for beginners using a bold and playful style with a focus on step-by-step instructions." With a detailed prompt, you can get results that are much closer to what you actually need.
Here are some ways you can use this feature.
Ask questions about user manuals
Upload manuals for appliances, vehicles, electronics, or other products and use NotebookLM as a searchable knowledge base. Instead of scrolling through dozens of pages, simply ask questions and let it find the relevant information for you.
Use it as a personal meal planner
Upload your favorite recipes, cooking notes, or meal plans and ask NotebookLM to suggest meals based on ingredients you already have. It can recommend recipes from your own collection and even tell you which ingredients you're missing.
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The Ultimate Guide for Usage-Based Pricing for SaaS and AI
Implementing usage-based pricing successfully requires more than just a pricing strategy.
Download this guide for practical advice and best practices when considering usage-based pricing.
AI Findings/Resources
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The latest in AI and Tech
The Hollywood studio has taken an equity stake in AI video company Runway and plans to use its existing intellectual property to create AI-generated short-form series, deepening a partnership that began in 2024. The expanded collaboration will also include a development program for new AI-created content and intellectual property, along with filmmaker-focused events designed to explore generative AI in production.
Visa is integrating its payments infrastructure with OpenAI to give AI agents the ability to make purchases and complete transactions on behalf of users.
DoorDash has introduced a new AI-powered chatbot called “Ask DoorDash” that lets users order food, groceries, and restaurant reservations using natural language prompts, photos, and recipe links. Instead of manually browsing restaurants or building a shopping cart, users can describe what they want and the chatbot will generate personalized recommendations and create orders automatically.
The new AI music detection tool lets users scan playlists from other streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and SoundCloud, for AI-generated tracks.
According to scam-detection firm Ask Silver, some fraudulent websites have appeared in ChatGPT-generated recommendations, mimicking legitimate retailers and exposing shoppers to scams and stolen payment information.
Some of the flagged sites have since been taken down, according to OpenAI.
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