Jeff Bezos and a group of billionaires have just invested around $3 billion in Altos Labs, a secretive longevity-focused startup aiming to slow or even reverse aging through genetic cell reprogramming. The goal is to use epigenetic techniques to “turn back the clock” in cells without losing their identity, potentially repairing damaged tissues in the body.
Altos Labs has already assembled a team of top experts from pharmaceuticals, stem cell research, and genetic engineering, who left academic careers to join the startup. With such financial and human resources, Altos immediately becomes one of the most powerful players in the longevity biotechnology space.
This move clearly shows that Silicon Valley no longer sees longevity as an eccentric idea but as a serious business sector. Bezos’ backing and a high-caliber research team make Altos Labs one of the most ambitious and expensive attempts to “hack” or slow down aging.
In Brief: Tech World Highlights
- Nvidia unveiled the Rubin platform at CES 2026, combining six new chips into a single AI supercomputer, offering five times the training compute compared to the Blackwell line.
- Liquid AI released LFM 2.5, a new family of SOTA open-weight AI models for devices, covering text, image, and audio, outperforming similar-sized competitors in benchmarks.
- Lightricks published the open-source LTX-2, an AI video system capable of generating native 4K content with synchronized audio and detailed camera and motion control.
- AMD CEO Lisa Su stated at CES 2026 that global AI users will surpass 5 billion in the next five years, and computing power will need to increase 100x to meet demand.
- LM Arena, a platform for testing AI models, raised $150 million in Series A funding at a $1.7 billion valuation, tripling its initial investment value.
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