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Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.
TL;DR
- Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded by Ilya Sutskever, has partnered with Nvidia.
- The deal includes an undisclosed investment, reported to be in the billions (potentially $5 billion).
- SSI gains access to Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPU platform, significantly increasing its compute resources.
- The partnership aims to accelerate SSI's research into safe, aligned artificial superintelligence.
- SSI focuses on a "straight shot" research approach, avoiding commercial distractions.
- Nvidia will collaborate with SSI on advancing compute platforms, utilizing SSI's technology and insights.
- Sutskever previously headed the Superalignment team at OpenAI.
- SSI has raised $7 billion to date and is valued at $32 billion post-money.
- Previous SSI backers include Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, and Sequoia Capital Partners.