Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised over $1 billion in capital from buyers together with NFDG (an funding partnership run by Nat Friedman and SSI CEO Daniel Gross), a16z, Sequoia, DST World and SV Angel.
SSI instructed Reuters that it plans to make use of the spherical to accumulate computing energy and rent researchers and engineers cut up between Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. As to what precisely they’ll analysis, SSI isn’t saying fairly but.
Reuters, citing a supply acquainted, says that the brand new funding values SSI at $5 billion.
Previous to SSI, Sutskever headed the now-dismantled Superalignment staff at OpenAI, which centered on normal AI security analysis. Sutskever quietly departed OpenAI months after a highly-publicized fallout between him, a number of former OpenAI board members and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over what Sutskever has known as a “breakdown in communications.”
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