Reports indicate that Safe Superintelligence, or SSI, an artificial intelligence company founded by Ilya Sutskever, former chief scientist and co-founder of OpenAI, has received a fresh round of funding worth $2 billion from leading investors led by Greenoaks, bringing its valuation to $32 billion. This surge in valuation makes SSI a powerhouse startup, considering that just last September the company had a valuation of $5 billion from a $1 billion investment at the time.
Additional information from Reuters reveals that the latest funding round also saw Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and NVIDIA joining in the investment, although specific figures were not disclosed. During the recent Google Cloud Next conference, Google disclosed that SSI utilizes TPU chips provided on Google Cloud for AI processing primarily.
Source: Reuters
TLDR: Safe Superintelligence secures $2 billion in funding, with a valuation of $32 billion, attracting investments from top players like Alphabet and NVIDIA. The company leverages TPU chips on Google Cloud for its AI processing needs.
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