Ilya received a heavy bet from Huang Renxun! 10 times the computing power supply, 5 billion US dollars invested on the way?

Compiled by Zhidongxi | Edited by Cheng Qian | Li Shuiqing Zhidongzhi reported on July 28 that just now, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced the establishment of a long-term strategic partnership with NVIDIA. Nvidia will invest heavily in SSI to increase its computing power by 10 times in the next 12 months. ▲SSI official announcement tweet (Source: Financial details of the investment in the deal have not been made public. Bloomberg, the Financial Times and other foreign media reported that Nvidia will invest US$5 billion (approximately RMB 33.8 billion) in SSI. NVIDIA’s official announcement blog mentioned that NVIDIA finalized this cooperation after in-depth exposure to SSI’s highly confidential R&D system to further promote the development of SSI. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang mentioned in the official announcement article that Ilya has made many groundbreaking breakthroughs in the basic technology of modern AI, starting with the introduction of the AlexNet neural network. He is very much looking forward to seeing what new breakthroughs SSI based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform can bring. SSI was founded in June 2024. It was co-founded by Sutskever, Daniel Gross, who once led the AI ​​project at Apple, and Daniel Levy, Sutskever’s colleague at OpenAI. The team is located in California, USA, and Tel Aviv, Israel. ▲From left to right are Gross, Sutskever, and Levy. In June last year, Gross left SSI, and some changes occurred in SSI’s leadership team. Sutskever served as CEO and Levy served as president. The company’s official website states that its only goal is to “create a safe superintelli