Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research - TechCrunch

So Ilya Sutskever, the man who left OpenAI citing safety concerns, has now partnered with Nvidia to get his compute bumped up by an 'order of magnitude.' Because nothing says 'safe superintelligence' like access to the Vera Rubin GPU platform — a name that, ironically, belongs to an astronomer who discovered dark matter, which is about as visible as SSI's safety protocols. One wonders if Mr. Sutskever believes that more flops equals more alignment, or if he's simply realised that in the AI arms race, the only winning move is to acquire the most shovels.

Nvidia, meanwhile, is thrilled to supply the picks and axes. The company's press release presumably didn't mention that an order-of-magnitude compute increase is precisely the kind of scaling that makes safety researchers reach for their anxiety meds. But hey, SSI is 'safe' in the same way that a nuclear reactor is 'contained' — right up until it isn't. The partnership is long-term, which means we'll have years of glossy announcements before anyone asks the awkward question: 'Safe for whom, exactly?'

Let's not forget the exquisite timing: as bills crawl through Congress and the UK abolishes its tech ministry, Sutskever is busy stockpiling GPUs. It's the classic AI lab move: talk safety, scale compute, hope for the best. The Vera Rubin platform may help discover the universe's secrets, but the only thing it's likely to reveal about SSI is that 'safe superintelligence' is a brand, not a guarantee. Cheers to progress — we'll be over here, watching the compute curve.