Focus on the BIG picture.
Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025
Outside the box.
Sam Altman said today, "AI will soon make it possible for one person to build a billion-dollar company."
And that's exactly what Ilya Sutskever, his ex-partner and co-founder of OpenAI, accomplished.
Ilya raised $1 billion in first-round seed funding for his new startup, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), which is focused on creating a direct path to safe superintelligence. With a staggering $5 billion valuation on day one, SSI shattered every startup record in history.
The funding came from industry heavyweights like NFDG, a16z, Sequoia, DST Global, and SVAngel.
The funding came from industry heavyweights like NFDG, a16z, Sequoia, DST Global, and SVAngel.
