Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.
Ilya Sutskever
Researcher
OpenAI's chief scientist through GPT-4, then founder of Safe Superintelligence in June 2024. SSI has raised about $8B, has no product, and took $5B from Nvidia in July 2026.
Known for AlexNet; GPT lineage; SSI
Works in
-
Jun 2024 – nowSafe Superintelligence, Co-founder and chief scientistSources Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research TechCrunch 2026-07-27
-
Dec 2015 – May 2024OpenAI, Co-founder and chief scientistSources Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research TechCrunch 2026-07-27