Former OpenAI scientist’s new AI startup reaches $30 billion valuation

Ilya Sutskever’s secretive AI company Safe Superintelligence (SSI) has reached a valuation of $30 billion in its latest funding round. According to reporting by Berber Jin and Deepa Seetharaman from The Wall Street Journal, the company is raising approximately $2 billion from investors. Sutskever, who previously served as OpenAI’s chief scientist and helped develop ChatGPT, … Read more

Former OpenAI scientist raises $1 billion for AI safety startup

Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI) is raising over $1 billion at a valuation exceeding $30 billion, Bloomberg’s Kate Clark reports. Greenoaks Capital Partners leads the investment with $500 million. The startup, co-founded by Sutskever after leaving his position as OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, focuses exclusively on developing safe AI systems. SSI’s valuation has increased significantly from … Read more

AI startup SSI in talks for $20 billion valuation

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an AI startup focused on developing safe artificial general intelligence, is reportedly in discussions to raise funding at a $20 billion valuation. According to Reuters reporters Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu, and Anna Tong, this would represent a fourfold increase from the company’s $5 billion valuation last September. SSI was founded by former … Read more

OpenAI co-founder launches Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has launched a new startup called Safe Superintelligence Inc. He is joined by Daniel Levy and Daniel Gross. The founders see “superintelligence” as the most important technical problem of our time. Such systems would go far beyond the capabilities of the human brain. Sutskever was previously part of the superalignment … Read more