OpenAI co-founder’s new safety-focused AI startup raises $1B

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a new firm co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in funding to help develop safe artificial intelligence systems that can far exceed human capabilities, a company executive told Reuters. SSI, which currently has 10 employees, plans to use the funding to acquire computing power and hire […]