News Summary

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $2 billion at a valuation of $32 billion. The startup, which is only a year old, has garnered attention and significant investment despite not yet having a product. The funding round was reportedly led by Greenoaks, with participation from major tech companies like Alphabet and Nvidia. Sutskever, who left OpenAI in 2024 following an unsuccessful attempt to remove CEO Sam Altman, established SSI with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy. The company aims to develop a ‘safe superintelligence’ as its primary product.