CNBC September 4, 2024
Key Points
– OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever raised $1 billion for his new AI firm Safe Superintelligence, or SSI.
– Investors include A16, Sequoia, DST Global and SV Angel.
– Sutskever was OpenAI’s chief scientist and co-led the company’s Superalignment team with Jan Leike, who also left the company in May. Leike joined rival AI firm Anthropic.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who left the artificial intelligence startup in May, has raised $1 billion from investors for his new AI company, Safe Superintelligence, or SSI.
The company announced in a post on X that investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global and SV Angel, as well as NFDG, an investment partnership co-run by SSI executive Daniel Gross.
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