OpenAI’s former chief scientist is beginning a brand new AI firm

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder and former chief scientist, is beginning a brand new AI firm targeted on security. In a publish on Wednesday, Sutskever revealed Secure Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a startup with “one purpose and one product:” making a secure and highly effective AI system.

The announcement describes SSI as a startup that “approaches security and capabilities in tandem,” letting the corporate rapidly advance its AI system whereas nonetheless prioritizing security. It additionally calls out the exterior stress AI groups at firms like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft typically face, saying the corporate’s “singular focus” permits it to keep away from “distraction by administration overhead or product cycles.”

“Our enterprise mannequin means security, safety, and progress are all insulated from short-term industrial pressures,” the announcement reads. “This fashion, we are able to scale in peace.” Along with Sutskever, SSI is co-founded by Daniel Gross, a former AI lead at Apple, and Daniel Levy, who beforehand labored as a member of technical employees at OpenAI.

As OpenAI pushes ahead with partnerships with Apple and Microsoft, we doubtless gained’t see SSI doing that anytime quickly. Throughout an interview with Bloomberg, Sutskever says SSI’s first product might be secure superintelligence, and the corporate “won’t do the rest” till then.