Secure Superintelligence, an AI startup based by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, might be near elevating greater than $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation — the next valuation than reported simply weeks in the past.
Bloomberg experiences that VC agency Greenoaks Capital Companions is main the deal and pledging to take a position half a billion {dollars}. Ought to the phrases of the spherical not change, the fundraising would deliver Secure Superintelligence’s complete raised to roughly $2 billion.
Sutskever is broadly revered within the AI — and wider tech — trade. He’s credited with contributing to main AI breakthroughs whereas at OpenAI, together with the technical method that made ChatGPT’s improvement attainable.
Secure Superintelligence, which additionally counts ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Levy and former Apple AI initiatives lead Daniel Gross amongst its founding crew, has raised cash from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST International. It isn’t producing income but, and doesn’t intend to promote AI merchandise within the close to future.