Safe Superintelligence

Building safe superintelligent AI.

HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA

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Updated Jul 30, 2026

Overview

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

Palo Alto, California, United States

Tel Aviv, Israel

Business model

venture-backed research lab

Funding

Stage

Private venture-backed

Total raised

$3B

Latest round

Strategic investment / partnership · Jul 2026

Strategic investment

Jul 2026 · NVIDIA

Strategic investment / partnership

Jul 2026 · NVIDIA

Series B

Apr 2025 · Greenoaks Capital

$2B

Venture round

Apr 2025 · Greenoaks Capital

$2B

Series A

Sep 2024

$1B

Seed / venture round

Sep 2024

$1B

People & investors

Leadership

Ilya Sutskever

CEO; Co-founder and Chief Scientist

Daniel Levy

Co-founder and President

Founders

Daniel Gross

Co-founder

Investors

Greenoaks Capital Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Work & culture

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

Equity

Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities

Product & market

Pricing

No public pricing; no commercial product has been announced.

Differentiators

—Single-product 'straight-shot' lab focused only on safe superintelligence
—Safety and capability development treated as one technical problem
—No interim products or product-cycle distractions
—Small, elite research team
—Insulated from short-term commercial pressures
—Strategic access to Google Cloud TPU and NVIDIA compute

Technology

Google Cloud TPU infrastructure

NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU platform

Ashby recruiting portal

Competitors

OpenAI

Anthropic

Google DeepMind

xAI

Meta Superintelligence Labs

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$650K-$1.7M annual revenue estimate (external estimate; public revenue undisclosed)

Estimated monthly visits

125.5K

Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026

comms@ssi.inc

Signals & risks

Other

Jul 2025

Daniel Gross departed SSI for Meta, and Ilya Sutskever took over leadership.

Source

Acquisition

Jun 2025

Meta reportedly attempted to acquire SSI and recruit Ilya Sutskever, but the offer was rebuffed.

Source

Latest news

Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc. and NVIDIA Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership

NVIDIA Newsroom · Jul 2026

Announced an NVIDIA investment and compute partnership that expands SSI's compute by an order of magnitude.

Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research

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.

Sutskever to lead Safe Superintelligence after Meta poaches CEO Gross in AI talent war

Reuters · Jul 2025

Reported Daniel Gross's departure to Meta and Ilya Sutskever taking over leadership of SSI.

Alphabet, Nvidia invest in OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's SSI, source says

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.

Ilya Sutskever taps Google Cloud to power his AI startup's research

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.

Jobs and careers at Safe Superintelligence

13 jobs at Safe Superintelligence

Staff AI Engineer

Remote

Corporate

Canada Wide - Excluding Quebec; Canada

1d ago

Remote

Full-time