Safe Superintelligence
Funding History
| Seed · 09/2024 | $5.0B |
|---|---|
| Series (Growth, led by Greenoaks) · 04/2025 | $32.0B |
About
Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) was founded on June 19, 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy with a single stated mission: to safely build superintelligence, described on the company's own site as "the most important technical problem of our time." SSI calls itself "the world's first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence," and has said it intends to advance capability and safety in parallel rather than ship incremental commercial products.
- CEO
- Ilya Sutskever
- Employees
- ~50 (as of July 2025)
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, CA (with an office in Tel Aviv, Israel)
- Founded
- June 19, 2024
- Website
- ssi.inc
Overview
Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) is a private AI research lab founded on June 19, 2024 by Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI's former chief scientist), Daniel Gross (formerly Apple's AI lead), and Daniel Levy (a former OpenAI researcher). SSI describes itself as "the world's first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence," and has stated it will not release any commercial products until it can deploy a safe superintelligence. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with a second office in Tel Aviv, Israel, chosen for access to Israeli technical talent. SSI has raised roughly $8 billion in equity since founding, across a $1 billion seed round (September 2024), a $2 billion round led by Greenoaks Capital (April 2025) that valued the company at $32 billion, and an undisclosed strategic investment from Nvidia, reported by Bloomberg at approximately $5 billion, (July 27, 2026) tied to priority access to Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin compute platform. Investors across these rounds include Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global, SV Angel, Greenoaks Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, Alphabet/Google, and Nvidia; SSI also has a compute partnership with Google Cloud (TPUs, announced April 2025). Co-founder Daniel Gross departed SSI in June 2025 to join Meta's Superintelligence Labs, after which Ilya Sutskever became CEO and co-founder Daniel Levy became President (announced July 3, 2025).
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