OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever's Safe AI Startup Raises $1 Billion
Months after resigning from AI developer OpenAI, former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever’s new venture Safe Superintelligence (SSI) has raised $1 billion in funding, the company announced on Wednesday. According to SSI, the funding round included investments from NFDG, a16z, Sequoia, DST Global, and SV Angel. Reuters, citing sources “close to the matter,” reported that SSI is already valued at $5 billion. SSI is building a straight shot to safe superintelligence. We’ve raised $1B from NFDG, a16z,...