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Ilya Sutskever

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Founded Safe Superintelligence Founded Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Ilya Sutskever is a computer scientist known for foundational work in deep learning and a co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), an AI lab focused on developing safe superintelligent systems. He previously co-founded OpenAI and served as its chief scientist, playing a central role in developing systems such as GPT models, before departing in 2024 to start SSI. Earlier in his career he studied under Geoffrey Hinton and, with Alex Krizhevsky, created AlexNet, a convolutional neural network that helped spark the modern deep learning boom; he also contributed to sequence-to-sequence learning and other major AI research advances. At SSI he has secured large compute partnerships with Nvidia, including access to its Vera Rubin GPU platform, to scale the lab's research. He is frequently cited in industry discussions about the trajectory of AI progress, including debates over the balance between scaling and research-driven advances.

Updated 5 August 2026

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