Bezos Wants $100 Billion to Buy Factories and Let AI Run Them
Jeff Bezos already reshaped retail, cloud computing, and space travel. Now he wants the entire manufacturing sector — and he’s raising $100 billion to get it. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the Amazon founder is in early discussions with sovereign wealth funds and major asset managers to assemble what investor documents call a “manufacturing transformation vehicle.” The play: buy manufacturing companies across chipmaking, defense, and aerospace, then flood them with AI to automate everything that moves. ...