Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup based by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, could possibly be near elevating greater than $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation — the next valuation than reported simply weeks in the past.
Bloomberg studies that VC agency Greenoaks Capital Partners is main the deal and pledging to speculate half a billion {dollars}. Should the phrases of the spherical not change, the fundraising would convey Safe Superintelligence’s complete raised to roughly $2 billion.
Sutskever is extensively revered within the AI — and wider tech — business. He’s credited with contributing to main AI breakthroughs whereas at OpenAI, together with the technical method that made ChatGPT’s improvement doable.
Safe Superintelligence, which additionally counts ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Levy and former Apple AI tasks lead Daniel Gross amongst its founding staff, has raised cash from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST Global. It isn’t producing income but, and doesn’t intend to promote AI merchandise within the close to future.
