Ilya Sutskever

Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)

Specialties

Deep LearningNLPAI SafetyAGI

Location

Israel/Canada

Education

PhD in Computer Science, University of Toronto (2012, incomplete).

Links & Profiles

𝕏 Twitter Website Scholar

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Biography

Co-founder of OpenAI and SSI, and SSI's CEO since mid-2025. Key author of AlexNet, seq2seq, GPT-2/3/4. SSI announced a roughly $5B NVIDIA partnership in July 2026.

Key Influence

Key architect behind GPT-2/3/4. Left OpenAI to build safe superintelligence.

📰 In the News

NVIDIA Puts $5 Billion Into Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence

2026-07-27

NVIDIA is investing $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence and giving it access to the Vera Rubin platform, enough to raise SSI's compute by an order of magnitude. NVIDIA says it committed after being granted rare access to research SSI has kept closed for two years.

Awards & Recognition

NeurIPS Test of Time Award, MIT Technology Review Innovator

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Geoffrey Hinton

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Sam Altman

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Andrew Ng

Dario Amodei

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