{"id":191481,"date":"2024-06-19T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/ilya-sutskever-openais-former-chief-scientist-launches-new-ai-company"},"modified":"2024-06-19T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T01:23:10","slug":"ilya-sutskever-openais-former-chief-scientist-launches-new-ai-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/ilya-sutskever-openais-former-chief-scientist-launches-new-ai-company","title":{"rendered":"Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI\u2019s former chief scientist, launches new AI company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ilya-sutskever-openais-former-chief-scientist-launches-new-ai-company2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/ilya-sutskever\/\">Ilya Sutskever<\/a>, one of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/openai\/\">OpenAI\u2019s<\/a> co-founders, has launched a new company, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ssi.inc\/\">Safe Superintelligence Inc<\/a>. (SSI), just one month after formally leaving OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>Sutskever, who was OpenAI\u2019s longtime chief scientist, founded SSI with former Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross and ex-OpenAI engineer Daniel Levy.<\/p>\n<p>At OpenAI, Sutskever was integral to the company\u2019s efforts to improve AI safety with the rise of \u201csuperintelligent\u201d AI systems, an area he worked on alongside Jan Leike, who co-led OpenAI\u2019s Superalignment team. Yet both <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/05\/14\/ilya-sutskever-openai-co-founder-and-longtime-chief-scientist-departs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sutskever<\/a> and then <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/05\/18\/openai-created-a-team-to-control-superintelligent-ai-then-let-it-wither-source-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leike<\/a> left the company in May after a dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/05\/18\/openai-created-a-team-to-control-superintelligent-ai-then-let-it-wither-source-says\/\">falling out<\/a> with leadership at OpenAI over how to approach AI safety. Leike now heads a team at rival AI shop Anthropic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilya Sutskever, one of OpenAI\u2019s co-founders, has launched a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), just one month after formally leaving OpenAI. Sutskever, who was OpenAI\u2019s longtime chief scientist, founded SSI with former Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross and ex-OpenAI engineer Daniel Levy. At OpenAI, Sutskever was integral to the company\u2019s efforts to improve AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}