OpenAI cofounder’s new AI startup SSI raises $1 billion

SSI declined to share its valuation, but sources close to the matter said it was valued at $5 billion.

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI‘s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash to help develop safe artificial intelligence systems that far surpass human capabilities, company executives told Reuters.