Ilya Sutskever’s SSI partners with Nvidia in a deal Bloomberg pegs at $5 billion
RebeccaBellan · x · 2026-07-28
Safe Superintelligence, the stealth AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, is partnering with Nvidia to scale its research.
Key details:
- the deal includes an undisclosed investment
- a source told TechCrunch Nvidia’s investment reaches into the multi-billion-dollar range
- Bloomberg put the figure at $5 billion
- SSI will get access to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin GPU platform
- Nvidia says the partnership should increase SSI’s compute capacity by an order of magnitude
The announcement comes after two years in stealth and is framed as a push into SSI’s next phase of growth.
Related event: SSI Secures NVIDIA Investment and Vera Rubin Compute(43 posts)→
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