Safe Superintelligence
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About
Safe Superintelligence (SSI) is an AI research company co-founded in 2024 by former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, together with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy 12. The company has publicly said it does not plan to commercialize AI products in the near term and is instead focused on research aimed at building a safe superintelligence 12. On 2026-07-27 Nvidia announced a $5 billion investment in SSI, coupled with access to Nvidia’s next-generation Vera Rubin compute platform, in what has been described as one of Nvidia’s largest AI investments to date 123. The financing brings SSI’s total raised to approximately $7 billion at a $32 billion valuation (valuation last reported February 2025) 23.
Disclaimer: This is a lean profile built from initial round coverage and may be expanded as more information becomes available.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
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| 2026-07-27 | Strategic Investment | $5B | Nvidia | — 123 |
| 2024 | Prior rounds | ~$2B (cumulative) | — | Andreessen Horowitz, Alphabet, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, Sequoia Capital 1 |
What Investors Say
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What Founders Say
“We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so. We are confident that our big bet on the Vera Rubin platform will take us to the next level.” — Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, quoted in TechCrunch, July 27, 2026 1
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TechCrunch, “Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research,” July 27, 2026. Accessed August 3, 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-partners-with-nvidia-to-scale-its-ai-research/↩↩↩↩↩↩
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The Globe and Mail, “Nvidia to invest $5-billion in Ilya Sutskever’s AI research startup,” July 27, 2026. Accessed August 3, 2026. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-nvidia-ilya-sutskever-openai-safe-superintelligence-investment/↩↩↩↩↩
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Crunchbase News, “The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals,” week ending July 31, 2026. Accessed August 3, 2026. https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-funding-rounds-safe-superintelligence-commonwealth-fusion/↩↩↩