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Safe Superintelligence
Ilya Sutskever's research company, set up around the single stated goal of a "safe superintelligence" with no plan to sell products along the way.
Safe Superintelligence, usually shortened to SSI, is a research company founded in June 2024 by Ilya Sutskever — OpenAI's former chief scientist — with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, split between Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. It was set up around a single stated aim, reaching what it calls a safe superintelligence, with no plan to sell products or generate revenue along the way — a structure intended to insulate long-term research from the commercial and release pressures Sutskever had cited when leaving OpenAI after the 2023 board crisis. Despite shipping nothing publicly, it has raised billions on the strength of Sutskever's reputation, reaching a reported $32 billion valuation in 2025 and later a large strategic investment and compute deal with Nvidia, making it one of the starkest examples of a lab funded on research credibility rather than a product.
- Category
- Frontier & foundation-model labs
- Founded
- 2024
- HQ
- Palo Alto, US
- Funding
- ~$32bn valuation (2025); strategic compute partnership with Nvidia (2026)
- Key people
- Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Levy
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- Money & business 3
- Labs & people 2
- Compute & infrastructure 1
- Ideas & essays 1
- Safety & alignment 1
SSI and Nvidia announce long-term strategic partnership
Nvidia invests roughly $5bn in Safe Superintelligence and grants access to its next-generation Vera Rubin platform, SSI's first major public update since 2024.
Money & business · Compute & infrastructure
Dwarkesh Patel's second interview with Ilya Sutskever declares the scaling era over
Sutskever said models 'generalize dramatically worse than people,' citing an example of an AI that fixes a bug, breaks it again, then reverts to the original error when corrected.
Ideas & essays
Safe Superintelligence raises $2bn at $32bn valuation with no product
Greenoaks Capital led the round, with Alphabet and Nvidia investing alongside it, months after SSI had raised $1bn at a $5bn valuation with no product to show.
Money & business · Labs & people
Safe Superintelligence raises $1B
The round reportedly valued the two-and-a-half-month-old company at around $5 billion, paid entirely in cash despite SSI having shipped no public product.
Money & business
Sutskever founds Safe Superintelligence
Sutskever co-founded the lab with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, split between Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, one month after leaving OpenAI's board and chief-scientist role.
Labs & people · Safety & alignment
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Referenced in passing — Safe Superintelligence isn't the main subject of these.