Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Safe Superintelligence

Founder at OpenAI

Palo Alto, California

About

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Ilya Sutskever is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Safe Superintelligence. Ilya previously worked at OpenAI as a Cofounder and Chief Scientist.

Experience

OpenAI

Founder

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Growth7.5kSan Francisco, CAAI · Enterprise

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Safe Superintelligence

CEO

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Growth7Palo Alto, California, United StatesAI · Enterprise

Safe Superintelligence

CEO · 2025 – present

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Growth7Palo Alto, California, United StatesAI · Enterprise

OpenAI

Board Member

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Growth7.5kSan Francisco, CAAI · Enterprise

820 Open Jobs →

Education

University of Toronto · PhD, unknown
– 2012

Portfolio (1)

Rosebud AI

Generative AISeed10 emp

News about Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026
Time Magazine · Aug 27
Nvidia to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever's AI startup, source says
Reuters · Jul 27
Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
TechCrunch · Jul 27
Nvidia Makes Multibillion Dollar Investment in Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence
The Information · Jul 27
From a tense split to dueling IPOs: A timeline of Anthropic and OpenAI's rivalry
Business Insider · Jun 22

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President, Chairman, & Co-Founder

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