Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an AI startup spearheaded by Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has recently secured an additional $2 billion in funding, bringing its valuation to $32 billion. This funding round, led by Greenoaks, comes on the heels of SSI’s previous funding success of $1 billion and follows earlier reports indicating that the startup was […]
Inside the Sam Altman Firing Drama: Insights from a Revealing New Book Excerpt
An excerpt from the forthcoming book The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future reveals new insights into the 2023 controversy surrounding OpenAI’s decision to briefly fire CEO Sam Altman. Written by Wall Street Journal journalist Keach Hagey, the excerpt reports that the nonprofit’s board became increasingly worried after discovering that […]
OpenAI Co-founder Ilya Sutskever Launches New Startup to Pioneer ‘Safe Superintelligence’
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