Safe Superintelligence

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Nvidia reportedly pours $5B into Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence

A lab with zero products or revenue gets placed in the same GPU queue as the world's largest AI deployments.

• Nvidia and Safe Superintelligence announced a long-term strategic partnership Monday, with Nvidia making an investment the companies called "substantial" that Bloomberg and Reuters report totals $5 billion.
• SSI, founded in 2024 by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy, calls itself the world's first "straight-shot" lab with one goal and no near-term product or revenue plans.
• The deal gives SSI access to Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin GPU platform, which SSI says will increase its available compute by an order of magnitude, or roughly 10x, within 12 months.
• Before this deal, SSI had already raised roughly $3 billion from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and DST Global at a reported $32 billion valuation.
• Nvidia was already an existing SSI investor before this new deal, and the partnership reportedly came together within weeks after Nvidia got rare access to review SSI's closely guarded research.
• The investment doubles as a compute lock-in, letting Nvidia secure a leading alignment-focused research lab as a customer for its Vera Rubin systems even though SSI sells nothing commercially.