Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI company founded by Ilya Sutskever, former chief scientist at OpenAI, has raised $2 billion from Nvidia and Alphabet. This funding round values the company at approximately $32 billion, a sixfold increase from its $5 billion valuation in September 2024, despite its founding just months earlier in June 2024. Nvidia’s investment is designed to dramatically scale SSI’s computing power for superintelligence research, aligning with its strategic interest in driving GPU demand. Alphabet’s participation reflects the willingness of major tech companies to fund frontier AI research outside their own labs. SSI has no connection to crypto assets and focuses exclusively on centralized AI infrastructure.
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