Former OpenAI Chief Scientist Announces New Safety-Focused Company

Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI, announced on Wednesday that he's launching a new venture dubbed Safe Superintelligence Inc. Sutskever said on X that the new lab will focus solely on building a safe "superintelligence"--an industry term for a hypothetical system that's smarter than humans. Sutskever is joined at Safe SuperIntelligence Inc. by co-founders Daniel Gross, an investor and engineer who worked on AI at Apple till 2017, and Daniel Levy, another former OpenAI employee. The new American-based firm will have offices in Palo Alto, Calif., and Tel Aviv, according to a description Sutskever shared. I am starting a new company: https://t.co/BG3K3SI3A1 Sutskever was one of OpenAI's founding members, and was chief scientist during the company's meteoric rise following the release of ChatGPT.