OpenAI co-founder raises $1B for safety-focused AI development

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised a billion dollars in capital towards its goal of developing safe superintelligent AI systems.

Sutskever co-founded the company with Daniel Gross, who spearheaded AI efforts at Apple, and Daniel Levy, who previously worked at OpenAI, just three months ago, and the company is now valued at $5 billion, according to Reuters.

SSI currently has...