It has become known that Alphabet, which has its own artificial intelligence models, and Nvidia, which presented its new artificial intelligence chip, are investing in the AI startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI) of co-founder and former chief scientific officer of OpenAI Ilya Sutzkever.
It has become known that Alphabet, which has its own artificial intelligence models, and Nvidia, which presented its new artificial intelligence chip, are investing in the AI startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI) of co-founder and former chief scientific officer of OpenAI Ilya Sutzkever.
The well-known tech giants are joining venture capital investors to invest in SSI, Reuters reports, citing a source familiar with the matter. The details and exact terms of Alphabet and Nvidia’s investments in SSI are not yet known, and spokespeople for all three companies declined to comment.
The publication also reports that Alphabet this week also announced a deal for its cloud computing division to sell SSI access to tensor processing units (TPUs), its internal AI chips.
Also, this week, Google unveiled a new chip to speed up its Ironwood AI applications. And in December 2024, Google’s quantum computing lab developed a new chip, Willow, that can complete a computational task in less than five minutes — a process that, according to the company, would take one of the world’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years (a ten followed by 24 zeros), which is longer than the age of the universe.
Safe Superintelligence (SSI) is an AI startup founded by Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutzkever, 37, in June 2024. SSI is working to create a superintelligence that is smarter than humans, but safe.
SSI was co-founded by Daniel Gross, who previously led artificial intelligence initiatives at Apple (AAPL.O), and Daniel Levy, a former researcher at OpenAI. Sutzkever is the chief scientific officer, Levy is the chief research officer, and Gross is responsible for computing power and fundraising.
The startup received $1 billion in funding, as it became known in early September 2024, to develop safe artificial intelligence systems that significantly exceed human capabilities. Among the investors are leading venture capital companies, including: Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global, SV Angel, NFDG.
In September 2024, the company employed 10 employees.
