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title: "Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale research"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/ilya-sutskever-s-safe-superintelligence-partners-with-nvidia-to-scale-re-4408f7
source_name: "TechCrunch Startups"
source_url: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-partners-with-nvidia-to-scale-its-ai-research/
published: 2026-07-27T15:01:50.000Z
topics: ["llms", "research"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale research

*2026-07-27 · Source: [TechCrunch Startups](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-partners-with-nvidia-to-scale-its-ai-research/)*

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the lab founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia after roughly two years operating in stealth. The partnership is meant to help SSI scale into its next phase of research.

**Why it matters:** SSI has been notably secretive about its approach and progress since Sutskever left OpenAI to pursue superintelligence research with a safety focus, so this is one of the first concrete signals of its direction and resourcing. Nvidia backing another frontier lab, alongside its stakes in OpenAI and others, deepens its influence across nearly every major AI research effort.

**Topics:** llms, research

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