Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale research capabilities

Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI company founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has locked in a $2 billion funding round backed by Nvidia and Alphabet. The deal values the company at roughly $32 billion, which is remarkable for a firm that didn’t exist 12 months ago. Nvidia’s investment is aimed at dramatically scaling SSI’s computing power for superintelligence research. From zero to $32 billion in under a year SSI was founded on June 19, 2024, with a singular and intentionally narrow mission: build safe superintelligence. No chatbots, no enterprise SaaS products, no pivot-ready roadmap. The trajectory has been staggering. In September 2024, barely three months after incorporation, SSI raised $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation. The April 2025 round, pulling in $2 billion from Nvidia, Alphabet, a16z, and Lightspeed, pushed the valuation to approximately $32 billion. That’s a 6x jump in roughly seven months. The company operates out of dual offices in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel, and continues to recruit aggressively. Its lean structure and singular focus stand in contrast to the sprawling research agendas at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthro...