NVIDIA has invested in Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) and will give the AI research company access to its Vera Rubin compute platform, the companies announced. The deal lets SSI scale its compute capacity. The two companies will also collaborate on technical development of NVIDIA’s current and future compute platforms.
SSI, co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, has spent the past two years working on a new research direction focused on aligned artificial intelligence. NVIDIA entered the partnership after reviewing SSI’s research and will support the company’s next phase of development.
“Ilya has pioneered fundamental breakthroughs at the foundation of modern AI, beginning with AlexNet,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “We are excited to see what new breakthroughs SSI will discover powered by our Vera Rubin platform.”
“We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so,” said Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and CEO of SSI. “We’re incredibly proud to be partnering with Jensen and the NVIDIA team, and we are confident that our big bet on the Vera Rubin platform will take us to the next level.”
Source: NVIDIA
About SSI
Safe Superintelligence Inc. is an artificial intelligence research company founded in 2024. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with an office in Tel Aviv, Israel. Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy founded SSI to research superintelligent AI systems and related safety methods. Its work covers artificial intelligence research, model development, computing infrastructure and AI safety. The company conducts research operations in the United States and Israel. Sutskever serves as CEO, while Levy serves as president. SSI has raised several billion dollars to support research and computing requirements. SSI employs about 40 people.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, designs and manufactures graphics processing units, systems on chips, networking hardware, and AI intelligence software such as CUDA. Its products serve industries including gaming, data centers, autonomous vehicles, professional visualization, robotics, health care, and energy. The company introduced the GPU in 1999 and later expanded into accelerated computing and AI infrastructure. In gaming, its GPUs support high-performance rendering, while in AI and high-performance computing, its systems provide the infrastructure for training and deploying large-scale models. NVIDIA also develops tools for robotics and autonomous driving.