Ilya Sutskever Taps Google Cloud to run AI Startup research

Openai founder and former founder of the former world Ilya Sutskever AI, Safe Superintelligence (SSI) uses, Google Cloud’s TPU chips to run AI’s research, which is part of a new partnership announced by companies on Wednesday in A. press release.

Google Cloud says SSI uses TPUS “to accelerate research and development efforts to build safe and poisonous artificial intelligence.”

Cloud service providers are chasing a handful of startups that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on computing energy every year to train AI’s models. SSI deal with Google Cloud indicates that the previous will spend a large part of the computing budget with Google Cloud; One of the familiar sources tells that Google Cloud is the main computing provider in SSI.

Google Cloud has a history of amazing computing deals with former artificial intelligence researchers, many of whom now manage startups of one billion dollars. (Sutskever was working once in Google.) In October, Google Cloud said The main computing provider will be World laboratoriesFounded by Ex-Google Clough Ai Fei-FEI LI scientists.

It is not clear whether SSI had partnerships with another cloud or computing providers. Google Cloud spokesman rejected the comment. A spokesman for the safe SuperInteigence did not respond immediately on a request for comment.

SSI came out of the hidden in June 2024, months after Sutskever Go out of his role Like the chief scholar in Openai. The company has a billion dollars in support from Andressen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global, SV Angel and others.

Since the launch of SSI, we have heard relatively little about startup activities. On WebsiteSSI says that the development of safe artificial intelligence systems is “our mission and our name and the entire product systems, because it is our only focus.” Sutskever Previously said He has selected a “new climbing mountain” and is achieved from new ways to improve the performance of Frontier AI models.

Before participating in the founding of Openai, Sutskever spent several years in Google Brain in searching for nerve networks. After leading the safety of artificial intelligence in Openai for years, Sutskever played a major role in expelling the CEO of Openai Sam Altman in November 2023. Sutskever later joined the staff movement to return Altman as CEO.

After this ordeal, Sutskever was said to be unprecedented at the Openai offices for several months, and eventually left the start starting to start SSI.