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Nvidia Invested Billions in Ilya Sutskever's AI Company, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
SSI — helmed by Sutskever, who was a co-founder of OpenAI and famously clashed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — announced a “long-term strategic partnership” with Nvidia with a reported investment of $5 billion, which will allow the company “10x our compute in the next 12 months.” The company wrote on X, “We reached the point where our research is worth scaling.”
TL;DR
- Nvidia invested billions in Ilya Sutskever's AI company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI).
- SSI announced a long-term strategic partnership with Nvidia.
- The investment is reported to be $5 billion.
- This investment will allow SSI to increase its compute power by 10x in the next 12 months.
- SSI stated that its research has reached a point where it is worth scaling.