Report: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation
SAFE Superintelligence, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutkever, is in conversation to collect financing in the event of a valuation of “at least” $ 20 billion, According to Reuters.
It is not clear how much safe super intelligence – which does not yet generate income – wants to secure, but it can be considerable. The new figure is 4x the $ 5 billion appreciation that the company held last September.
Little is known about the work of Safe Superintelligence. The company, which also has former opai researcher Daniel Levy and former Apple AI projects, leads Daniel Gross under the founding team, has so far collected $ 1 billion. Existing investors include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and DST Global.
Sutskever is generally respected in the AI and wider technology – industry. He has credited to contributing to large AI through breaches during OpenAI, including the technical approach that made Chatgpt the development possible.
