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Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)

SSI is a pre-product AI research lab founded by Ilya Sutskever to develop superintelligent AI systems with safety built in from the ground up, funded at $3B with no commercial revenue.

ssi.inc · Palo Alto

CALL NO.CS·SSI·26
StageSeries A (undisclosed amount)July 2025[1]
Raised$3Bdisclosed rounds[1][2][9]
Headcount21as of Jun 2026[11]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2024[5][6][9]
Money

Raised $3B across disclosed rounds.[1][2][9]

Series A (undisclosed amount) closed July 2025.[1]

Round size and post-money valuation are not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Greenoaks Capital Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SV Angel, NFDG, Alphabet, Nvidia.[2][3][4][5][9]

People

Ilya Sutskever, Co-founder; Chief Scientist[4][5][10]

Daniel Gross, Co-founder; handles computing power and fundraising (former YC partner, led AI at Apple)[4][5][10]

Daniel Levy, Co-founder; Principal Scientist (former OpenAI researcher)[4][5][10]

Signals
Jun 5 2026newsSafe Superintelligence Inc. company claim, not independently confirmed[8]
Apr 13 2025fundingIlya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence raises $2B at $32B valuation ...[13]
Sep 12 2024fundingSSI - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors - Tracxn[1]
Sep 4 2024newsExclusive: OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's new safety-focused AI ...[12]
Sep 4 2024newsIlya Sutskever's SSI raises $1B+ as Nvidia invests in two startups[14]
Comps

OpenAI · openai.com · Direct institutional overlap: SSI was founded by Ilya Sutskever (former OpenAI Chief Scientist) explicitly as an alternative approach to superintelligence development; named as primary comparable in competitor sources and in coverage of SSI's founding...[10][15][16]

DeepMind (Google) · deepmind.com · Same research mission: long-horizon AGI/superintelligence development with safety research embedded; Alphabet is also a strategic investor in SSI, creating direct competitive and collaborative overlap at the frontier research layer.[3][16]

Anthropic · anthropic.com · Same category: frontier AI lab with safety as a stated core research priority, named alongside SSI in competitor intelligence sources (Distill Intelligence, CBInsights) as a direct comparable in the safety-focused foundation model space.[15][16]

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Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)

CALL NO.CS·SSI·26

SSI is a pre-product AI research lab founded by Ilya Sutskever to develop superintelligent AI systems with safety built in from the ground up, funded at $3B with no commercial revenue.

ssi.inc · Palo Alto

StageSeries A (undisclosed amount)
Raised$3B
Headcount21
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2024
CompsOpenAI +2

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