OpenAI Co-Founder Raises $1 Billion to Build Safe, Powerful AI
- Sutskever’s new venture has no imminent plans to sell products
- Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia invested in the funding round
Ilya Sutskever
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Safe Superintelligence Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in funding to build a safe and powerful AI system.
Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and SV Angel contributed to the funding round, Safe Superintelligence announced on Wednesday. NFDG, the venture capital firm of Nat Friedman and Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Gross, also invested. Reuters was first to report the news.