Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of \u201cat least\u201d $20 billion, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear how much Safe Superintelligence \u2014 which has yet to generate any revenue \u2014 is looking to secure, but it could be substantial. The new figure is 4x the $5 billion valuation the company held last September.<\/p>\n
Little is known about Safe Superintelligence\u2019s work. The company, which also counts ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Levy and former Apple AI projects lead Daniel Gross among its founding team, has raised $1 billion so far. Existing investors include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST Global.<\/p>\n
Sutskever is widely respected in the AI \u2014 and wider tech \u2014 industry. He\u2019s credited with contributing to major AI breakthroughs while at OpenAI, including the technical approach that made ChatGPT\u2019s development possible.<\/p>\n\n Safe Superintelligence: Ilya Sutskever’s New AI Company Valued at $20 Billion A New Chapter for Ilya Sutskever Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[65,329,1036,270,229,1037,330],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ai","tag-funding","tag-ilya-sutskever","tag-in-brief","tag-report","tag-safe-superintelligence","tag-startup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/ilyausutskever-GettyImages.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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