Bezos Raising $100 Billion for AI Manufacturing Fund Source: https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-03-20 Jeff Bezos is in early talks with some of the world’s largest asset managers to raise $100 billion for a new fund. The plan: buy up manufacturing companies in chipmaking, defense, and aerospace, then use AI to accelerate their automation. He’s already been to the Middle East and Singapore pitching investors. The logic is straightforward — AI has proven itself in software, and the next frontier is physical manufacturing. Not SaaS, not chatbots, but buying actual factories and rewiring production lines with AI.