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. After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder and alignment lead Ilya Sutskever , has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase. The deal, which includes an undisclosed investment, will give Safe Superintelligence (SSI) access to Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPU platform, which is expected to increase the startup's compute resources "by an order of magnitude.
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- " The partnership comes as SSI has achieved significant research milestones, per Nvidia .
Nvidia's investment stretches into multiple billions, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch.
- The partnership news, while sparse in details, brings SSI back into the spotlight after a quiet two years since it was founded.
The company is pursuing a "straight shot" research approach to building what it says is a safe, aligned artificial superintelligence, without getting distracted by commercial product releases or short-term revenue cycles.
- ) Sutskever is a pioneer in the field of AI.
He co-authored and co-created AlexNet alongside Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, proving that GPU scaling and deep neural networks can work.
- " SSI has raised $7 billion to date, and is valued at $32 billion post-money , according to PitchBook data.
Aside from Nvidia, the firm's backers included Andreessen Horowitz, Alphabet, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, Sequoia Capital Partners, and others.
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- #" SSI has raised $7 billion to date, and is valued at $32 billion post-money , according to PitchBook data.
" The partnership comes as SSI has achieved significant research milestones, per Nvidia . Nvidia's investment stretches into multiple billions, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. Already an investor in SSI, the chipmaking giant said it signed this compute partnership to "accelerate SSI's next stage of growth after obtaining rare access into the company's closely guarded research.
" "We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so," Sutskever said in a statement. "We are confident that our big bet on the Vera Rubin platform will take us to the next level. The partnership news, while sparse in details, brings SSI back into the spotlight after a quiet two years since it was founded.
The company is pursuing a "straight shot" research approach to building what it says is a safe, aligned artificial superintelligence, without getting distracted by commercial product releases or short-term revenue cycles. At a time when commercial pressures to move fast could encourage AI labs to lower their bar for safety, SSI's approach to developing foundational techniques focused on alignment and true general reasoning feels poignant. That's especially true in light of OpenAI's recent disclosure that one of its advanced models broke out of its sandbox to hack into Hugging Face during testing - sparking concerns about whether it's even possible to ensure AI alignment before new, increasingly capable models are released.
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