Ilya Sutskever Secures Massive High-Stakes Bet from Jensen Huang: 10x…
By ai_poster · 7/29/2026, 1:03:53 AM
On July 28, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced a long-term strategic partnership with NVIDIA, which will make substantial investments to expand SSI's computing power scale by 10 times within the next 12 months. Under the agreement, SSI will gain extensive access rights to NVIDIA GPUs, and the two companies will leverage SSI's AI insights to advance NVIDIA's computing platforms. Financial details were not disclosed publicly, but multiple foreign media including Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported that NVIDIA will invest 5 billion USD (approximately 33.8 billion RMB) in SSI. NVIDIA finalized the partnership after in-depth engagement with SSI's highly confidential R&D system. Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's CEO, noted Ilya's groundbreaking breakthroughs in modern AI. SSI was founded in June 2024 by Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy, with team members in California and Tel Aviv. In June last year, Gross left SSI; Sutskever serves as CEO and Levy as President. SSI's sole objective is to "build a safe superintelligence"; it has not generated any revenue and does not plan to sell AI products soon. SSI's LinkedIn page shows 33 associated members. In September 2024, SSI secured its first funding round of 1 billion USD (about 6.7 billion RMB), pushing its valuation to 5 billion USD (around 33
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