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NVIDIA wins Sutskvi: Investing in SSI Lab adds another big piece to the computing power map According to the Wall Street Journal, NVIDIA officially invested in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a highly confidential AI laboratory owned by Ilya Sutskvi, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI, with an investment amount of
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NVIDIA wins Sutskvi: Investing in SSI Lab adds another heavyweight to the computing power map According to the Wall Street Journal, NVIDIA officially invested in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a highly confidential AI laboratory owned by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskvi. The investment amount was described as "substantial", but the specific financial terms were not disclosed. The core bargaining chip of this transaction is computing power. Under the agreement, SSI will be allowed to use a large amount of Nvidia's flagship GPU hardware, enough to increase its computing resources by "an order of magnitude" - previously the company mainly relied on TPU chips made by Google. NVIDIA decided to take action after getting a rare glimpse into SSI's research progress, which shows its recognition of Suzkowe's technical route. Hidden giant emerges: One-year valuation of US$30 billion SSI was co-founded by Sutskevi in 2024. The company's positioning is extremely clear-to conquer "safe superintelligence" in a "one-stop" manner, that is, to achieve AI capable of all human tasks without threatening humans. Relying on Suzkovi's strong reputation in academia, SSI quickly attracted an investment of approximately US$2 billion from top venture capital investors such as a16z and Sequoia Capital. Its valuation has reached approximately US$30 billion (approximately 203.3 billion yuan) as of last year, and the details of its research remain highly confidential. This is not the first time NVIDIA has bet on core personnel of OpenAI leaving - in March this year, NVIDIA has reached a similar investment agreement with Thinking Machines Lab founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Mulati. The first AI model released by the latter this month is based on NVIDIA hardware training. From Mulati to Sutskvi, NVIDIA is systematically binding the top research forces in the AI field to build a deeply coupled computing power ecological network based on GPU sales - whoever can train the next generation model must enter NVIDIA's orbit. via AI News (author: AI Base)