OpenAI co-founder Illya Sutskever’s new venture, Safe Superintelligence or SSI, raised $1 billion from venture capital funds NFDG, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, DST Global, and SV Angel, according to the company’s website. Reuters reported, citing sources, that the money comes with an eyewatering $5 billion valuation.
SSI plans to use the money raised to acquire computing power and hire talent, since their team is only 10 people at this time.
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