Safe Superintelligence Inc.
In plain wordsA company started in 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI, with the single goal of building a superintelligent AI that is safe. It sells no products.
An American AI research company that aims to make safe superintelligencesuperintelligence, n.: A mind, usually imagined as an AI, that would leave even the cleverest people far behind in nearly every kind of thinking, not just in one game or skill. None is known to exist. its first and only product, skipping the intermediate models and services through which other labs earn revenue; its founders argued that going straight for the goal would keep the work free of commercial deadlines. It has published almost nothing about its technical approach; Ilya Sutskever has indicated only that it is pursuing a different path from scaling as practiced at other labs, and in late 2025 he argued that the field was returning from an 'age of scaling' to an 'age of research'. Based in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel, it has attracted multi-billion-dollar investment, a computing agreement with Google Cloud (2025) and a long-term partnership with Nvidia (2026) while, as of October 2026, having released no model or product.
Origin
Announced on 19 June 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI, with investor and entrepreneur Daniel Gross and former OpenAI researcher Daniel Levy. Gross left for Meta in July 2025, and Sutskever became chief executive.
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- Ilya SutskeverIlya Sutskever, prop. n.: A Russian-born Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who co-built the AlexNet image recognizer, helped found OpenAI and lead its research until 2024, and now heads the startup Safe Superintelligence Inc.
- superintelligencesuperintelligence, n.: A mind, usually imagined as an AI, that would leave even the cleverest people far behind in nearly every kind of thinking, not just in one game or skill. None is known to exist.
- OpenAIOpenAI, prop. n.: The American company that makes ChatGPT and the GPT models. It began in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab and is now a for-profit company overseen by a nonprofit foundation.
- Thinking Machines LabThinking Machines Lab, prop. n.: Mira Murati's AI company, which she started in San Francisco in 2025 after serving as OpenAI's technology chief. It makes tools for customizing AI models and releases some models openly.
- Meta Superintelligence LabsMeta Superintelligence Labs, prop. n.: A division Meta created in 2025 to pursue superintelligence, gathering all of the company's AI teams under new leaders recruited in an expensive hiring campaign.
- scaling lawsscaling laws, n.: Measured patterns showing that an AI model's error shrinks smoothly and predictably as the model is made bigger and given more data and computing power, so labs can forecast a giant model's performance from small, cheap experiments.
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artificial superintelligenceartificial superintelligence, n.: Superintelligence in machine form: AI that would outthink the best humans at nearly every intellectual task. Often shortened to ASI and pictured as the stage after human-level AI., Ilya SutskeverIlya Sutskever, prop. n.: A Russian-born Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who co-built the AlexNet image recognizer, helped found OpenAI and lead its research until 2024, and now heads the startup Safe Superintelligence Inc., Meta Superintelligence LabsMeta Superintelligence Labs, prop. n.: A division Meta created in 2025 to pursue superintelligence, gathering all of the company's AI teams under new leaders recruited in an expensive hiring campaign., OpenAI leadership crisis (2023)OpenAI leadership crisis (2023), n.: The five days in November 2023 when OpenAI's board fired chief executive Sam Altman, nearly all staff threatened to quit, and he returned with a new board., superalignmentsuperalignment, n.: The problem of keeping AI systems far smarter than humans aligned with human intentions — and the name of OpenAI's short-lived 2023–2024 research team devoted to it., Thinking Machines LabThinking Machines Lab, prop. n.: Mira Murati's AI company, which she started in San Francisco in 2025 after serving as OpenAI's technology chief. It makes tools for customizing AI models and releases some models openly.