Ilya's SSI Partners with Nvidia in Multi-Billion Dollar Deal for Vera Rubin GPUs
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-07-28
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, has announced a long-term strategic partnership with Nvidia.
The deal includes a multi-billion dollar investment, reportedly around $5 billion according to Bloomberg. Prior to the agreement, Nvidia was granted rare access to review SSI's closely guarded research, acknowledging significant research milestones. Through this partnership, SSI will gain access to Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin GPU platform, expected to increase the startup's compute resources by an order of magnitude to support its next phase of scaling.
Related event: SSI Secures NVIDIA Investment and Vera Rubin Compute(43 posts)→
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