Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever is a Soviet-born Israeli-Canadian computer scientist specializing in machine learning and deep learning. He is the co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc., having previously co-founded OpenAI and served as its chief scientist. He is best known for co-creating AlexNet with Geoffrey Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky, co-developing sequence-to-sequence learning at Google Brain, and playing a key role in the development of the GPT models and ChatGPT at OpenAI. He is one of the most highly cited computer scientists in history and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022.