OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever’s New AI Startup ‘Safe Superintelligence’ Hits $32B Valuation
Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI) secures $2B in fresh funding, pushing its valuation to $32B.
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OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever’s New AI Startup ‘Safe Superintelligence’ Hits $32B Valuation OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence Valued at $32 Billion I’ve been keeping a close eye on what’s unfolding in the AI startup world, and something massive just happened. Ilya Sutskever—yes, the same visionary who co-founded OpenAI—has a new mission. His latest project, Safe Superintelligence (SSI) , has now been valued at a staggering $32 billion after raising another $2 billion in funding. Here’s why this matters and what it could mean for the future of AI. Image Credits:Getty Images A New Chapter After OpenAI Sutskever’s departure from OpenAI in May 2024 was anything but ordinary. He played a controversial role in a failed attempt to oust OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman. That fallout led him to start something radically different with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy—a startup laser-focused on one singular mission: building a safe superintelligence . I can’t emphasize enough how bold that is. Unlike other AI ventures that try to be everything at once, SSI isn’t interested in ch…