VentureBeat September 4, 2024
Ilya Sutskever’s incredible journey from OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist to alleged attempted coup ringleader against friend Sam Altman to journeyman in the tech wilderness has reached a new milestone: a $1 billion funding round for his new venture from some of the biggest venture capital names in Silicon Valley, including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global, SV Angel NFDG.
According to Reuters, which broke the news, Sutskever’s company Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), which he co-founded in June 2024 with fellow former OpenAI researcher Daniel Levy and Apple’s former AI lead and Cue co-founder Daniel Gross, just earned the massive check in cash and is now valued at $5 billion.
Sutskever took to X to celebrate the news and acknowledge...
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