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

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI safety company founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia. The partnership will grant SSI access to Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPU platform, which Nvidia says will increase SSI's compute resources by an order of magnitude. The announcement was made on July 27, 2026, as reported by TechCrunch.

SSI was founded by Sutskever after he left OpenAI in 2024, with a stated mission of developing safe superintelligence. The company has been relatively secretive about its research progress. Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform is the company's next-generation GPU architecture, expected to be deployed in data centers for AI workloads. No financial terms of the partnership were disclosed.

The deal represents a significant compute commitment for a safety-focused AI lab. It follows a trend of major AI labs partnering with Nvidia for access to advanced hardware. SSI has not specified how the increased compute will be used, beyond 'scaling its AI research.' The partnership comes amid growing debate over the safety implications of scaling AI capabilities.