Nvidia to invest $5B in startup, accesses its ‘closely guarded research’
Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI) is co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. Nvidia’s investment combined with access to the Nvidia Vera Rubin platform will help SSI increase its compute by an order of magnitude.
Nvidia will make a USD 5 billion equity investment in startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), according to a report by Reuters.
Safe Superintelligence — an American company with offices in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel — is co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
SSI has been “quietly advancing a new research direction to unlock a powerful and robustly aligned artificial intelligence,” Nvidia said in a press release.
The chipmaker added that it has entered this partnership to accelerate SSI’s next stage of growth after “obtaining rare access into the company’s closely guarded research.”
Nvidia’s investment combined with access to the next-generation Nvidia Vera Rubin platform is expected to help SSI increase its compute by an order of magnitude. The two companies will also collaborate on the technical advancement of Nvidia’s current and future compute platforms, leveraging SSI’s unique insights into the future of AI, Nvidia said.
“Ilya has pioneered fundamental breakthroughs at the foundation of modern AI, beginning with AlexNet,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “We are excited to see what new breakthroughs SSI will discover powered by our Vera Rubin platform.”
“We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big Nvidia computer will let us do so,” said Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and CEO of SSI. “We’re incredibly proud to be partnering with Jensen and the Nvidia team, and we are confident that our big bet on the Vera Rubin platform will take us to the next level.”
