Ilya Sutskever is an AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former Chief Scientist of OpenAI. A University of Toronto PhD advised by Geoffrey Hinton, he helped advance deep learning through influential work on neural networks, sequence-to-sequence learning, and large-scale AI systems. Before OpenAI, he was a research scientist at Google Brain after Google acquired DNNResearch, the startup he co-founded with Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky. In 2024, after leaving OpenAI, Sutskever co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc., an AI lab focused on building safe superintelligence.
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ssiSafe Superintelligence Inc.The world's first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
CNBCOpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces his new AI startup, Safe SuperintelligenceOpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who left the company in May, announced his new startup, which he's calling Safe Superintelligence, or SSI.
One of the founders of OpenAI who was involved in a failed effort to push out CEO Sam Altman says he’s starting a safety-focused artificial intelligence company.
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OpenAIIlya Sutskever to leave OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki announced as Chief ScientistSupports that Sutskever left OpenAI in May 2024 and that Jakub Pachocki became Chief Scientist.
OpenAIIntroducing SuperalignmentSupports Sutskever’s former Chief Scientist role and his co-leadership of OpenAI’s Superalignment team.
University College, University of TorontoUC alumnus Ilya Sutskever, a leader in AI and its responsible development, receives U of T honorary degreeSupports University of Toronto education, Google Brain work, and OpenAI co-founder/chief scientist background.
Sutskever has spent his career at the center of frontier AI research, from Hinton’s University of Toronto lab and Google Brain to co-founding OpenAI and later Safe Superintelligence. His technical credibility in deep learning and alignment makes him highly aligned with companies building foundation models and safety-focused AI systems.