Ilya Sutskever raises billions to build safe superintelligence without products
ssi secured a multi-billion dollar compute partnership with nvidia to scale its research, intensifying the race to build superintelligent ai safely.
ssi announced a strategic partnership with nvidia, involving a multi-billion dollar investment to access the vera rubin gpu platform and scale research by an order of magnitude. the deal accelerates ssi's alignment-focused approach, diverging from competitors by prioritizing safety over revenue. with $7 billion raised and a $32 billion valuation, ssi's momentum signals that safety-first research requires industrial-scale capital and compute.