New York, June 19 (.).- The co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, announced this Wednesday on X that he has started a new artificial intelligence (AI) company focused on security that has no short-term intention of sell products or services.
The emerging company is called Safe Superintelligence Inc., Secure Superintelligence in Spanish (SSI), it has offices in Palo Alto (California) and Tel Aviv, in Israel – the country where Sutskever grew up – and its objective and product is to create an artificial intelligence system safe and powerful.
“We are assembling an agile and capable team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else,” the company notes in a statement.
Sutskever told Bloomberg that SSI’s first product will be a secure superintelligence – technology that does not exist at the moment – and that the company “won’t do anything else” until then.
“(The company) will be completely insulated from the external pressures of having to deal with a large, complicated product and being trapped in a rat race,” he noted to the outlet.
In addition to Sutskever, SSI is co-founded by Daniel Gross, former AI leader at Apple (NASDAQ:) and Daniel Levy, who was also part of the company that created ChatGPT, OpenAI, according to The Verge.
Sutskever, in 2023, led an effort to oust current OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, with whom he said he had a good relationship, and this year he left the popular company, which is now partnered with tech giants like Apple and Microsoft (NASDAQ :).
Safe Superintelligence is, in a way, a return to the original concept of OpenAI, which began as a non-profit organization.
