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OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Reportedly Valued at $32B
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Reports on Safe Superintelligence's $32B valuation and $2B funding round, highlighting the significant capital flowing into safety-focused AGI development led by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
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Summary
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded by Ilya Sutskever after his departure from OpenAI, has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $32 billion valuation, led by Greenoaks. The company, co-founded with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, is focused exclusively on building safe superintelligence. Despite the massive valuation, SSI has yet to release any product.
Key Points
- •SSI raised $2B in new funding at a $32B valuation, led by Greenoaks, bringing total raised to $3B.
- •Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI in May 2024 after involvement in a failed attempt to oust CEO Sam Altman.
- •SSI's stated mission is singular: building a safe superintelligence, with no product publicly released yet.
- •The valuation reflects massive investor appetite for safety-focused AGI ventures despite no product launch.
- •SSI was co-founded with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy alongside Sutskever.
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12:38 PM PDT · April 12, 2025
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Anthony Ha
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence reportedly valued at $32B
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup led by OpenAI’s co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised an additional $2 billion in funding at a $32 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times .
The startup had already raised $1 billion , and there were reports that an additional $1 billion round was in the works. SSI did not comment on the new funding, which was reportedly led by Greenoaks.
Sutskever left OpenAI in May 2024 after he appeared to play a role in an ultimately failed attempt to oust CEO Sam Altman . He founded SSI with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, and they said the company had “one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.”
That product is presumably still in the works, with SSI’s website little more than a placeholder with a mission statement.
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