Web Desk 
Jun 20, 2024
Venturing out in the realm of artificial-intelligence (AI) to outshine competitors, co-Founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI Ilya Sutskever has started a new AI company called Safe Super Intelligence.
His comeback with his own AI company comes over a month after he decided to leave OpenAI last month, a surprising move that jolted entire realm of technology.
Ilya Sutskever AI company Safe Superintelligence (SSI Inc)
Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the former OpenAI chief scientist posted on Wednesday: "I am starting a new company" while retweeting a post shared by SSI Inc, the AI company he has established.
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Disclosed as a startup with “one goal and one product”, the primary focus of the AI company is to develop a powerful and safe AI system.
In the announcement, SSI Inc is described as a startup that “approaches safety and capabilities in tandem” to enable the AI company achieve rapid propel its AI system while prioritising safety.
The company also calls out the stress often faced by AI teams of the top tech companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, stating that the company’s “singular focus” makes it get past “distraction by management overhead or product cycles.”
“Our business model means safety, security, and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures,” the announcement reads. “This way, we can scale in peace.”
Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy SSI
The SSI Inc is also co-found by Daniel Gross (a former AI lead at Apple) and Daniel Levy (a former technical staff worker at OpenAI.
Safe Superintelligence will mark a maiden product of SSI’s, and the company “will not do anything else” until then, Sutskever said during an interview with Bloomberg.
