Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence Inc.
About
Ilya Sutskever is a co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), focused on building safe superintelligent AI. Previously, he was co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI, where he led research behind the GPT series. A student of Geoffrey Hinton, he co-created AlexNet, revolutionizing computer vision. He departed OpenAI in 2024 to focus on AI safety.
Key Contributions
- Co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)
- Co-created AlexNet, revolutionizing computer vision
- Led research on GPT series at OpenAI
- Co-founded OpenAI in 2015
- Pioneered sequence-to-sequence learning