NVIDIA is said to be investing $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever’s SSI
theomitsa · x · 2026-07-29
A post reacting to a quote tweet says the biggest AI name has resurfaced: Ilya Sutskever. The thread says he co-founded OpenAI, then launched Safe Superintelligence (SSI) with a single mission and almost no public product surface.
- SSI reportedly raised $3 billion while saying very little publicly.
- Now NVIDIA is said to be putting $5 billion into SSI.
- The deal also gives SSI access to NVIDIA’s next-gen Vera Rubin chips, described as a major compute boost.
The post frames the move as one of the biggest signals yet around compute, safety, and the value of Ilya’s research pedigree.
Related event: SSI Secures NVIDIA Investment and Vera Rubin Compute(43 posts)→
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