Leadership disruption: co-founder and CEO Daniel Gross left SSI effective 2025-06-29; Ilya Sutskever became CEO and Daniel Levy became President.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Safe Superintelligence (SSI) is a secretive, venture-backed frontier AI research lab founded in 2024 to build safe superintelligence. The company says its sole mission and product is a safe superintelligence, and it is structured to prioritize long-term research and safety over near-term commercialization.
Primary product
A safe superintelligence
Founded
2024
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, United States
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Artificial intelligence
Sub-industry
AI safety / frontier AI research lab
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series B / strategic growth financing
Total raised
$3B
Latest round
Strategic investment · Jul 2026
Jul 2026 · NVIDIA
Apr 2025 · Greenoaks Capital
Sep 2024
Founders
Co-Founder; former CEO until 2025-06-29
SSI presents itself as a lean, elite, safety-first frontier AI lab focused on long-horizon research rather than short-term product cycles. Official messaging emphasizes a small team of top engineers and researchers, with work centered on Palo Alto and Tel Aviv offices.
Work style
Onsite
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public compensation signals are high-end technical roles: an Ashby role for Member of Technical Staff showed $100K-$500K plus equity, and H-1B/LCA records indexed for Safe Superintelligence showed base salaries of $150,000 and $500,000 in Palo Alto.
Differentiators
Technology
Estimated revenue
Pre-revenue / no revenue reported publicly as of 2025-02
Estimated monthly visits
125.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Leadership disruption: co-founder and CEO Daniel Gross left SSI effective 2025-06-29; Ilya Sutskever became CEO and Daniel Levy became President.
SourceSSI said multiple companies had sought to acquire it, but the company publicly stated it would remain independent and stay focused on its mission.
SourceReuters reported SSI had not generated any revenue as of early 2025, underscoring commercialization risk despite its very high valuation.
SourceTechCrunch · Jul 2026
SSI announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia for Vera Rubin compute and disclosed an Nvidia investment; reports described the financing as worth multiple billions, though the amount was not officially disclosed.
Reuters · Jul 2025
Daniel Gross exited SSI for Meta; Ilya Sutskever took over leadership and SSI said it would stay independent despite acquisition interest.
Reuters · Apr 2025
Reuters reported SSI raised $2 billion at a $32 billion valuation in a round led by Greenoaks, with Alphabet and Nvidia participating.
TechCrunch · Apr 2025
SSI selected Google Cloud TPUs as its primary compute platform for AI research, giving one of the first public glimpses into its infrastructure strategy.
Reuters · Sep 2024
Reuters reported SSI’s $1 billion launch financing at a $5 billion valuation and named the initial investor syndicate.