NVIDIA Invests in OpenAI's Co-Founders' New AI Lab, Providing Large-Scale GPU Compute Support

BlockBeats News, July 27th, according to WSJ, Nvidia has invested in AI lab Safe Superintelligence (SSI) founded by former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever. The two parties have reached a long-term cooperation agreement aimed at expanding SSI's computing resources and helping Nvidia secure key AI clients.

Both companies stated that Nvidia made a "large-scale" investment after understanding some of SSI's research progress, but did not disclose the specific amount. As part of the partnership, SSI will receive a significant amount of Nvidia's flagship GPU resources, with its computing power expected to increase by an order of magnitude.

Prior to this, SSI relied mainly on Google's TPU chips for AI research. This collaboration indicates that Nvidia is further expanding its AI chip ecosystem and securing future computing needs by investing in top AI labs.

Founded in 2024, SSI was established by Ilya Sutskever with the goal of developing "Safe Superintelligence." The company has previously raised about $2 billion in funding, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, and was valued at around $30 billion last year.

This is not Nvidia's first investment in an AI company founded by former OpenAI core members. In March of this year, Nvidia also invested in Thinking Machines Lab founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, whose company's first AI model was trained on Nvidia hardware.

Ilya Sutskever is one of the key researchers in the field of modern artificial intelligence, having been involved in the founding of OpenAI and driving the development of large-scale models like ChatGPT. However, after leaving OpenAI, he began to question the path of relying solely on scaling up data and computing power to drive AI progress, turning to explore new research directions in superintelligence.