Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has launched a new venture, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), which has secured $1 billion in funding from notable investors including a16z and Sequoia, valuing the company at $5 billion. Following his resignation from OpenAI, Sutskever emphasized the urgent need for safe AI development, stating that SSI’s mission is to focus solely on achieving safe superintelligence.
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