Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Ilya Sutskever's AI Startup, Source Says
The startup will use Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform to expand computing resources as the chipmaker backs its push for safe superintelligence.
- On Monday, Nvidia announced a $5 billion equity investment in Safe Superintelligence, the startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. The partnership grants SSI access to Nvidia's Vera Rubin hardware.
- Sutskever co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. in 2024 following his departure from OpenAI. The startup operates with total secrecy across offices in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv, dedicated to building theoretical AI with safety guardrails.
- Also on Monday, Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance with partners including Microsoft, Palantir, and SpaceX. The coalition aims to develop open-source technologies and share research to safeguard AI software.
- These investments follow Nvidia's weekend announcement of a $500 billion deal with South Korean chipmaker Hynix. Reports also suggest Nvidia is in talks to finance OpenAI's massive data center project in Ohio, valued at roughly $250 billion.
- Debate over open versus closed AI models intensified after a security incident at Hugging Face. Anthropic accused Chinese providers of "illicitly" extracting closed-source capabilities, prompting the Trump administration to threaten potential sanctions.
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Nvidia paid $20 billion for SRAM decode - AMD just partnered for it instead
AMD and Cerebras will split inference across two machines, with Helios racks handling prompt processing and the Wafer-Scale Engine generating tokens, available through Cerebras Cloud in H2 2026Nvidia is also doing something similar by licensing AI chip startup Groq's SRAM decode technology for $20 billionThe move sees AMD and Cerebras claim 5x higher tokens per watt versus a standalone Cerebras WSE configurationAMD and Cerebras Systems have anno…
Ilya Sutskever was involved in the dramatic dismissal of Sam Altman from the tech giant in 2023.
The artificial intelligence (AI) research lab of Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI, is receiving a $5 billion investment from Nvidia. Sutskever has been conducting superintelligence research in secret while refraining from external activities since leaving OpenAI in 2024, but with the securing of Nvidia's next-generation AI semiconductors, he appears to be fully revitalizing the field.
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