CEO of Safe Superintelligence
Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is CEO of Safe Superintelligence and a former OpenAI chief scientist, with research contributions to deep learning and language models.
About Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is an AI researcher and CEO of Safe Superintelligence, a company focused on developing AI capabilities and safety together. In a July 2025 company update, he announced that he had formally become CEO and that the technical team continued to report to him.
Previously, he was a co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, where he worked on GPT models. His earlier research includes contributions to AlexNet and sequence-to-sequence learning. He earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto.
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- David Silver Explains Ineffable: An RL "Superlearner" as the Alternative to LLMs →
In a Financial Times interview on October 12, 2026, ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver described Ineffable Intelligence, his startup building an AI superlearner that learns from experience with reinforcement learning rather than from human text. Here is the thesis, its roots in the Era of Experience paper, and what is and is not confirmed.
- What Is Superintelligence? The Definition That Keeps Getting Sold as a Product →
Superintelligence is not a model family, a White House synonym for AI, or a lab name. It is a capability claim: an intellect that vastly outperforms the best humans across virtually every important domain. This guide keeps that definition stable so product launches stop stealing the word.
- SSI Teases a 'Significant' Announcement — Nothing Else Is Confirmed →
On October 1, 2026 an X account posting as ''we'' at Safe Superintelligence Inc. said something of great significance would be announced soon. SSI's website still describes a straight-shot lab with one product. This is a tease checklist, not a model card.
- He Co-Invented ChatGPT. Now He Says It Was a "Weird Detour." →
Diogo Almeida helped invent the RLHF techniques behind ChatGPT as a member of OpenAI's post-training team. Now, as founder of TypeSafe AI, he argues the current era of chat-first, human-preference-optimized AI will one day be remembered as "a weird detour" — and that automation, not assistance, requires a fundamentally different training objective. This profile covers his argument, his own explainer video, and where critics push back.