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NVIDIA plans to invest US$5 billion in SSI, founded by Ilya Sutskever, to deepen cooperation in AI computing power. According to Bloomberg, NVIDIA plans to invest $5 billion in Safe Superint, an artificial intelligence laboratory founded by Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI.
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NVIDIA plans to invest US$5 billion in SSI, founded by Ilya Sutskever, to deepen cooperation in AI computing power. According to Bloomberg, NVIDIA plans to invest US$5 billion in Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), an artificial intelligence laboratory founded by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. The two parties have reached a long-term cooperation agreement to further strengthen the layout of AI computing power and model research and development. The two parties disclosed the cooperation news on Monday. It is reported that this is the first time NVIDIA has made an investment after having an in-depth understanding of SSI's R&D progress, but the specific financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. According to the agreement, SSI will use Nvidia's flagship GPU hardware on a large scale in the future, and the scale of its available AI training computing power is expected to increase by an order of magnitude. People familiar with the matter revealed that before this cooperation, SSI mainly relied on Google TPU chips for model training. With the addition of NVIDIA GPU resources, the company will receive stronger computing power support in basic model training and secure superintelligence research and development. SSI was founded in 2024 by Ilya Sutskever with the goal of developing “Safe Superintelligence”. In April last year, the company completed US$2 billion in financing, led by Greenoaks Capital, with participation from Google's parent company Alphabet and Nvidia. After the financing, the company's valuation reached US$32 billion. This investment also reflects Nvidia’s transformation from a pure AI chip supplier to a core investor in the AI ecosystem. As the competition for large models enters the stage of comprehensive competition for computing power, talent and infrastructure, strategic cooperation between leading AI laboratories and chip companies is continuing to deepen. As an emerging laboratory that gathers top AI research talents, SSI's development direction has attracted great attention from the industry. Nvidia’s increased cooperation is also seen as an important layout for it to bet on the next generation of artificial intelligence technology. via AI News (author: AI Base)