OpenAI’s co-founder Ilya Sutskever is starting a rival AI start-up focused on “building safe superintelligence”, just a month after he quit the AI company following an unsuccessful coup attempt against its chief executive Sam Altman.
On Wednesday, Sutskever, one of the world’s most respected AI researchers, launched Safe Superintelligence (SSI) Inc, which is billing itself as “the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence”, according to a statement published on X.
Sutskever has co-founded the breakaway start-up in the US with former OpenAI employee Daniel Levy and AI investor and entrepreneur Daniel Gross, who worked as a partner at Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley start-up incubator that Altman used to run.