According to a joint announcement published on NVIDIA's newsroom on July 27, 2026, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) and NVIDIA "announced a long-term partnership to rapidly accelerate SSI's strategic growth." As part of the deal, NVIDIA "has additionally made an investment in SSI," though the announcement did not specify a dollar amount. The two companies said they will also "collaborate on the technical advancement of NVIDIA's current and future compute platforms, leveraging SSI's unique insights into the future of AI." NVIDIA stated it entered the partnership "to accelerate SSI's next stage of growth after obtaining rare access into the company's closely guarded research."
Per the announcement, NVIDIA's investment, combined with SSI's access to the "next-generation, best-in-class NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform," will let SSI "increase its compute by an order of magnitude." Ilya Sutskever, SSI's cofounder and CEO, described the arrangement in the announcement: "We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so... we are confident that our big bet on the Vera Rubin platform will take us to the next level."
In the same announcement, SSI describes itself as "the world's first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence." The company also disclosed that for the last two years, it "has been quietly advancing a new research direction to unlock a powerful and robustly aligned artificial intelligence."
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang credited Sutskever with foundational work in the field, saying in the announcement: "Ilya has pioneered fundamental breakthroughs at the foundation of modern AI, beginning with AlexNet... We are excited to see what new breakthroughs SSI will discover powered by our Vera Rubin platform." The announcement further states that "Sutskever's research laid the foundation for modern AI, with contributions to AlexNet, AlphaGo, Sequence-to-Sequence learning, and the GPT models," and that he "spearheaded the research that led to reasoning models such as OpenAI o1."
According to the announcement, "founded in 2024, the company is led by Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy." NVIDIA's newsroom also states that "SSI's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital."
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Announcement date | July 27, 2026 |
| Company founded | 2024 |
| Leadership | Ilya Sutskever (cofounder & CEO), Daniel Levy |
| Investors | Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital |
| Compute impact cited | "Increase compute by an order of magnitude" via Vera Rubin platform access |
The announcement ties two claims together: NVIDIA's description of gaining "rare access" into SSI's "closely guarded research," and SSI's own description of Vera Rubin access as a way to "increase its compute by an order of magnitude." Sutskever's characterization of the deal as a "big bet" on Vera Rubin aligns with NVIDIA's stated goal of accelerating SSI's "next stage of growth." The compute expansion is paired, in the same release, with SSI's account of two years spent quietly pursuing "robustly aligned" AI research and its self-description as the "world's first straight-shot SSI lab" — a research history the announcement traces to Sutskever's earlier work on AlexNet, AlphaGo, Sequence-to-Sequence learning, the GPT models, and OpenAI o1.
According to NVIDIA's announcement, SSI was founded in 2024 and is led by Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy.
Per the announcement, SSI's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
According to the announcement, NVIDIA's investment combined with access to the Vera Rubin platform will let SSI increase its compute by an order of magnitude.
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