Protected Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup led by OpenAIβs co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised an extra $2 billion in funding at a $32 billion valuation, in response to the Monetary Occasions.
The startup had already raised $1 billion, and there have been reviews that an extra $1 billion spherical was within the works. SSI didn’t touch upon the brand new funding, which was reportedly led by Greenoaks.
Sutskever left OpenAI in Might 2024 after he appeared to play a job in an in the end failed try and oust CEO Sam Altman. He based SSI with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, they usually mentioned the corporate had βone purpose and one product: a protected superintelligence.β
That product is presumably nonetheless within the works, with SSIβs web site little greater than a placeholder with a mission assertion.
