Daniel Gross departed SSI for Meta, and Ilya Sutskever took over leadership.
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Updated Jul 30, 2026
Safe Superintelligence (SSI) is a private, venture-backed AI research lab founded in 2024 to build a single product—safe superintelligence—through a small, highly selective team and a safety-first, no-intermediate-products approach.
Primary product
Safe superintelligence (single-product AI research lab)
Founded
2024
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Artificial intelligence
Sub-industry
AI safety / frontier model research lab
Offices
15 jobs at Safe Superintelligence
Business model
Stage
Private venture-backed
Total raised
$3B
Latest round
Strategic investment / partnership · Jul 2026
Jul 2026 · NVIDIA
Strategic investment / partnership
Jul 2026 · NVIDIA
Apr 2025 · Greenoaks Capital
Apr 2025 · Greenoaks Capital
Sep 2024
Sep 2024
Founders
Co-founder
Lean, highly selective, research-first, safety-focused, and intentionally insulated from short-term commercial pressure and product cycles.
Compensation
A posted technical role listed compensation of $100K-$500K plus equity, with the final package depending on qualifications, experience, skill set, and location.
Benefits
Pricing
No public pricing; no commercial product has been announced.
Differentiators
Technology
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$650K-$1.7M annual revenue estimate (external estimate; public revenue undisclosed)
Estimated monthly visits
125.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
NVIDIA Newsroom · Jul 2026
Announced an NVIDIA investment and compute partnership that expands SSI's compute by an order of magnitude.
TechCrunch · 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
Reported Daniel Gross's departure to Meta and Ilya Sutskever taking over leadership of SSI.
Reuters · Apr 2025
Reported a $2B round at a $32B valuation, with Greenoaks leading and Alphabet/Nvidia joining as strategic backers alongside Google Cloud TPU access.
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.