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Safe Superintelligence , the AI inauguration founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever , is in talk of the town to parent funding at a evaluation of “ at least ” $ 20 billion , allot to Reuters .
It ’s not exonerated how much Safe Superintelligence — which has yet to generate any revenue — is looking to secure , but it could be hearty . The new figure is4x the $ 5 billion valuationthe companionship held last September .
minuscule is known about Safe Superintelligence ’s oeuvre . The companionship , which also counts ex - OpenAI researcher Daniel Levy and former Apple AI projects contribute Daniel Gross among its founding team , has raise $ 1 billion so far . Existing investor let in Sequoia Capital , Andreessen Horowitz , and DST Global .
Sutskever is wide respected in the AI — and wider technical school — industry . He ’s credit with contributing to major AI breakthroughs while at OpenAI , including the technical approach that made ChatGPT ’s development possible .