Ilya Sutskever founds Safe Superintelligence

Ilya Sutskever announced Safe Superintelligence Inc. on 19 June 2024, a month after leaving OpenAI, with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy. The founding statement named “one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence” and gave offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.

Why it mattered OpenAI’s former chief scientist set up a lab with nothing to sell, formalizing a split with the researchers who stayed to build commercial systems.