Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) is a pure AI safety research lab co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, focused solely on building safe superintelligence as its singular long-horizon goal. The company has no commercial product or external customers, and is funded by top-tier investors including a16z, Sequoia, and DST Global, with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.
“Nvidia will invest $5 billion in AI specialist Safe Superintelligence as part of a partnership that will give the company access to Nvidia hardware.”
Source→“The deal...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.'”
“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.”
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