ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is starting a new artificial intelligence company.
The company is focused on creating a safe AI environment at a time when some of the biggest tech companies are looking to dominate the generative AI boom.
The company is called Safe Superintelligence and is described on its website as a US firm with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. Sutskever made the announcement revealing that he was starting the company in a post on X.
“Our singular focus means no distraction by management overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety, security and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures,” the post says.
Sutskever is joined as by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Levy and Daniel Gross, co-founder of Cue and a former AI lead at Apple as co-founders of Safe Superintelligence.
Sutskever left Microsoft-backed OpenAI in May after playing a key role in CEO Sam Altman’s dramatic firing and rehiring in November last year. Sutskever was removed from the company’s board after Altman returned.