Well, well, well—look who’s making waves again. Ilya Sutskever’s latest venture, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), just teamed up with Google Cloud, and let’s just say the tech world is losing its collective mind. 🐝 Announced this Wednesday, this partnership means SSI will be using Google’s fancy TPU chips to, you know, try not to accidentally create Skynet while pushing AI to its limits. 🚀
Google Cloud? Yeah, they’ve got a thing for AI geniuses. This deal? Just another day at the office for them, proving they’re serious about staying ahead in the AI game. And SSI? They’re putting most of their computing eggs in Google’s basket, which means they’re about to spend a small fortune there. (Talk about putting your money where your mouth is.) 💸
SSI popped onto the scene in June 2024 with one goal: making superintelligent AI that doesn’t decide humans are obsolete. With a cool $1 billion from big names like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, they’re all in. But what they actually do all day? That’s been a mystery… until now. 😮
Sutskever, the man, the myth, the AI legend, calls SSI his ‘new mountain to climb.’ After the whole OpenAI drama (you know, the Sam Altman thing), he’s now pouring everything into SSI. And let’s not forget, his time at Google Brain basically set the stage for half the AI stuff we geek out over today. 🔍
As the AI world turns into a full-on arms race, deals like SSI and Google Cloud are becoming the norm. But with Sutskever leading the charge, SSI’s story is one you’ll want to keep an eye on. Will they figure out how to keep superintelligent AI from going rogue? Guess we’ll find out. ⏳
