Ilya Sutskever Starts New Company to Focus on Safe Superintelligence
On June 20, according to TapTechNews, in the early hours of Beijing time today, Ilya Sutskever, the former co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, officially announced his startup on X (Twitter) - founding a new company named Safe Superintelligence (abbreviated as SSI), aiming to directly create a safe superintelligence.
Ilya Sutskever said that the company will have only one focus, one goal and one product, and make a "revolutionary" breakthrough through a small cracking team to achieve the goal of pursuing safe superintelligence. At the same time, the new company claims to be the "world's first" laboratory directly attacking SSI.
According to the Financial Times, Sutskever, along with former OpenAI employee Daniel Levy and AI investor and entrepreneur Daniel Gross, co-founded the new company in the US. It is worth noting that Daniel Gross holds stakes in companies such as GitHub and Instacart, as well as shares in AI companies such as Perplexity.ai and Character.ai.
The three said that developing safe superintelligence is the company's sole focus, which is a kind of machine intelligence that can surpass human cognitive capabilities. They jointly released a statement: SSI will focus on a single business, meaning the company will not be affected by management fees and product cycles, and the company's business model means that "safety, security and progress" will all not be affected by short-term commercial pressure.
TapTechNews summary of background information on the characters:
Ilya Sutskever is considered one of the world's top AI researchers. In the early days of OpenAI, it could become a leader in this new field of generative AI, and Ilya Sutskever can be said to be a great contributor.
In November last year, Ilya Sutskever, as a pusher, suddenly removed Sam Altman from the post of CEO. But thereafter, Ilya "regretted" and invited him back.
On May 15 this year, Ilya Sutskever announced his departure from OpenAI, where he had worked for 10 years. But at the same time he said that he believes that under the leadership of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Mira Murati, and with the excellent research leadership of Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI will create a safe and beneficial AGI general artificial intelligence.