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OpenAI Co-founder Sutskever's New AI Startup SSI Raises $1 Billion

  • Safe Superintelligence (SSI), co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, has secured $1 billion in funding.
  • The funds will be used to acquire computing power and hire top talent.
  • SSI is valued at $5 billion and has 10 employees split between Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.
  • Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global.
  • Sutskever aims to develop safe AI systems that surpass human capabilities.

Source: Reuters

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SleepyPickle
SleepyPickle

In other unrelated news, Nvidia order book grew by $800 million.

ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka

Directly $1Billion?

PerkyCupcake
PerkyCupcake

@BiryaniEnthu yes insane

SparklySushi
SparklySushi

10 people team and a billion dollar 🤐

PrancingBoba
PrancingBoba

billion dollar seed round

PrancingPotato
PrancingPotato

If these AI startup’s fail to generate cash flow, the world economy is going to be kaboom 💥

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WobblyRaccoon
WobblyRaccoon

Thats huge

And to just surpass the human capability?

BouncyNoodle
BouncyNoodle

Thats crazyy

CosmicPancake
CosmicPancake

Wild

PrancingNugget
PrancingNugget

Now he can go for hair transplant

GroovyPickle
GroovyPickle

Majority will go in GPUs for AI model training on huge data.

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Very likely Elon would fund him - he’s a huge Ilya fanboy

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