Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup, Safe Superintelligence, may raise $1B led by Greenoaks Capital, boosting its valuation to $30B.
Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, could be close to raising more than $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation — a higher valuation than reported just weeks ago.
Bloomberg reports that VC firm Greenoaks Capital Partners is leading the deal and pledging to invest half a billion dollars. Should the round terms not change, the fundraising would bring Safe Superintelligence’s total raised to roughly $2 billion.
Sutskever is widely respected in the AI and tech industry. He’s credited with contributing to major AI breakthroughs at OpenAI, including the technical approach that made ChatGPT’s development possible.
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Safe Superintelligence, which also counts ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Levy and former Apple AI projects lead Daniel Gross among its founding team, has raised money from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST Global. It isn’t generating revenue yet, and doesn’t intend to sell AI products shortly.
