Ilya Sutskever, Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, June 5, 2023.
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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who Leave artificial intelligence startup last month, introduced his new AI company which he calls Super Secure Intelligence, or SSI.
“I’m starting a new company,” Sutskever wrote on X on Wednesday. “We will pursue safe superintelligence technology quickly, with one focus, one goal and one product.”
Sutskever is OpenAI’s chief scientist and co-leads the company’s Superalignment group with Jan Leike, who also left in May to join rival AI company Anthropic.
OpenAI’s Superalignment team focuses on steering and controlling AI systems but has dissolve shortly after Sutskever and Leike announced their departure.
Sutskever will continue to focus on safety at its new startup.
“SSI is our mission, our name, and our entire product roadmap, because it is our sole focus,” an SSI account posted on X. “Our sole focus I mean no distractions from overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety, security and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures. ”
Sutskever is setting up the company with Daniel Gross, the supervisor Apple AI and search efforts, and Daniel Levy, formerly of OpenAI. The company has offices in Palo Alto, California, as well as Tel Aviv.
Sutskever was one of the OpenAI board members behind the effort to oust Sam Altman in November. Altman and Sutskever, along with other directors, have clashed over the barriers OpenAI has placed in its pursuit Advanced AI.
Follow Altman sudden departure and before him quick recoverySutskever publicly apologized for his role in the ordeal.
“I deeply regret participating in the board’s actions,” Sutskever wrote in an X post on November 20. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we have built together and I will do everything I can to reunite.” company.”
