NVIDIA Announces Strategic Partnership and Investment in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Jul 27, 2026

On July 27, 2026, NVIDIA and Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) announced a long-term strategic partnership and investment. NVIDIA is providing SSI with access to its next-generation Vera Rubin computing platform, which is expected to expand SSI's compute capacity by an order of magnitude. The collaboration, formed after NVIDIA gained rare access to SSI's guarded research, aims to scale SSI's work on developing a robustly aligned, safe superintelligent AI system.

NVIDIA investment in SSI

▪The financial terms, investment amount, and ownership details of NVIDIA's investment in Safe Superintelligence Inc. were not disclosed.
▪NVIDIA announced a strategic investment in Safe Superintelligence Inc. on July 27, 2026.

SSI strategic partnership terms

▪NVIDIA and Safe Superintelligence Inc. will collaborate on the technical advancement of NVIDIA's current and future compute platforms.
▪NVIDIA entered the partnership after obtaining rare access to Safe Superintelligence Inc.'s closely guarded research.
▪NVIDIA and Safe Superintelligence Inc. entered a long-term strategic partnership to accelerate the startup's growth.

Vera Rubin compute capacity expansion

▪Access to the Vera Rubin platform is expected to increase Safe Superintelligence Inc.'s compute capacity by an order of magnitude.
▪The partnership provides Safe Superintelligence Inc. with access to NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin computing platform.

Safe superintelligence research scaling

▪Safe Superintelligence Inc. was founded in 2024 by Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy with the sole goal of developing a safe superintelligence.
▪Safe Superintelligence Inc. has spent two years quietly advancing a new research direction to unlock a robustly aligned artificial intelligence.
▪Safe Superintelligence Inc.'s existing investors include Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.

Ilya Sutskever AI credentials

▪Ilya Sutskever previously contributed to foundational AI research projects including AlexNet, AlphaGo, Sequence-to-Sequence learning, and GPT models.
▪Ilya Sutskever spearheaded the research that led to reasoning models such as OpenAI o1.