Former OpenAI Executive Launches New AI Firm To Solve One Major Problem

In a not-so-surprising move, Ilya Sutskever, a one-time Chief Scientist at Artificial Intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, has announced the new path he is taking.

Sutskever to Focus on Building Safe Superintelligence 

Sutskever wrote on X, “I am starting a new company. “

According an earlier post that he highlighted, the new company is called Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI). With SSI, the former OpenAI scientist is focused on building safe superintelligence, citing this goal as the most important technical problem in the world of today.

I am starting a new company: https://t.co/BG3K3SI3A1

— Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) June 19, 2024

SSI is using revolutionary engineering and scientific breakthroughs to solve technical challenges that questions safety and capabilities. In the long run, the focus of the platform is to improve capabilities at an amazing speed while maintaining safety.

While serving as OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Sutskever played a significant part in ousting Sam Altman from the company in December 2023. For several months, there were speculations about his future role in the company. Rather than provide an answer to these speculations, Sutskever decided to quit from the AI firm. Markedly, his exit from OpenAI happened just a day after GPT-4o model went live.

His decision to launch his company comes barely a month after his resignations was made public. However, it underscores AI’s meteoric rise in such a short time. Sutskever’s new company has pioneered the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab.

“SSI is our mission, our name, and our entire product roadmap, because it is our sole focus. Our team, investors, and business model are all aligned to achieve SSI,” the firm wrote on X.

SSI offices are located in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, cities where it claims to have deep roots and easy access to top technical talents. The company is currently trying to navigate the hiring stage and it says it is assembling a lean, cracked team of top engineers and researchers.

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