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Ilya Sutskever

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Safe Superintelligence Inc

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Biography

Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI). Co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI. One of the most cited deep learning researchers in history, known for AlexNet and foundational work on transformer scaling.

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Sutskever's departure from OpenAI was the most consequential exit in AI history -- the man who co-architected GPT decided the commercial path was incompatible with safe development. SSI raising $1B at a $5B valuation with no product, no roadmap, and deliberate opacity tells you everything about how much the market trusts his technical judgment. If anyone can make safety-first research work without commercial compromise, it is Sutskever.

Updated May 2026
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Safe Superintelligence Inc
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
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OpenAI
Former Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
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Google Brain
Former Research Scientist
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University of Toronto
Former PhD Student (Hinton Lab)
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