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Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia, gets multi-billion investment

7/27/2026

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Safe Superintelligence Inc., co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, signed a long-term Nvidia partnership granting priority access to the Vera Rubin GPU platform.
The partnership will boost SSI’s compute capacity by an order of magnitude with Vera Rubin systems that train large models using fewer GPUs.
Nvidia is making a multi-billion-dollar investment in SSI, which is valued at $32 billion after raising $7 billion.

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Historical Context

In August 2016 Nvidia gifted OpenAI a Pascal-based DGX-1 supercomputer, cutting model training from six days to two hours and helping recruit researchers such as Ilya Sutskever. That GPU-centric alliance showed how dedicated compute can accelerate deep-learning research. Today Safe Superintelligence Inc. secures a multi-billion-dollar Nvidia partnership for its Vera Rubin GPU platform, promising similar rapid scaling.

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Story summary

Safe Superintelligence Inc., co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, signed a long-term Nvidia partnership granting priority access to the Vera Rubin GPU platform.
The partnership will boost SSI’s compute capacity by an order of magnitude with Vera Rubin systems that train large models using fewer GPUs.
Nvidia is making a multi-billion-dollar investment in SSI, which is valued at $32 billion after raising $7 billion.

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