OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever raises $1 billion for his new AI firm
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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who left the artificial intelligence startup in May, has raised $1 billion from investors for his new AI company, Safe Superintelligence (SSI). The company announced in a post on X that investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global and SV Angel, as well as NFDG, an investment partnership co-run by SSI executive Daniel Gross. Sutskever was OpenAIs chief scientist and co-led the companys Superalignment team with Jan Leike, who also left in May to join rival AI firm Anthropic. Sutskever was one of the OpenAI board members involved in the temporary ouster of co-founder and CEO Sam Altman in November. The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets reported that Sutskever trained his focus on ensuring that artificial intelligence would not harm humans, while others, including Altman, were instead more eager to push ahead with delivering new technology.
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