Posted Jul 27, 2026 at 4:44 PM UTCHExternal LinkNvidia invested billions in Ilya Sutskever’s AI company, Safe Superintelligence Inc.SSI — helmed by Sutskever, who was a co-founder of OpenAI and famously clashed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — announced a “long-term strategic partnership” with Nvidia with a reported investment of $5 billion, which will allow the company “10x our compute in the next 12 months.” The company wrote on X, “We reached the point where our research is worth scaling.”Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Hayden Field
Nvidia invested billions in Ilya Sutskever’s AI company, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
SSI — helmed by Sutskever, who was a co-founder of OpenAI and famously clashed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — announced a “long-term strategic partnership” with Nvidia with a reported investment of $5 billion, which will allow the company “10x our compute in the next 12 months.” The company wrote on X, “We reached the point where our research is worth scaling.” [Link: SSI Inc. (@ssi) on X | https://x.com/ssi/status/2081732119194394763 | X (formerly Twitter)]
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Nvidia invested $5B in Sutskever's SSI, enabling 10x compute scaling in 12 months. This signals that infrastructure access, not R&D talent, is now the core moat in foundation models; CTOs navigate consolidation around GPU-dominant partners.
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