Protected Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup led by OpenAI’s co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised an extra $2 billion in funding at a $32 billion valuation, in response to the Monetary Instances.
The startup had already raised $1 billion, and there have been studies that an extra $1 billion spherical was within the works. SSI didn’t touch upon the brand new funding, which was reportedly led by Greenoaks.
Sutskever left OpenAI in Might 2024 after he appeared to play a job in an finally failed try to oust CEO Sam Altman. He based SSI with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, and so they stated the corporate had “one purpose and one product: a protected superintelligence.”
That product is presumably nonetheless within the works, with SSI’s web site little greater than a placeholder with a mission assertion.
