Ilya Sutskever
Computer scientist
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| March 2025 | Safe Superintelligence Inc. reached a $30 billion valuation, attributed to Sutskever's reputation. |
| 2024 | Included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in AI. |
| 2024 | Sutskever announced his departure from OpenAI to focus on a new project that was very personally meaningful to him. |
| September 2024 | Safe Superintelligence Inc. announced that it had raised $1 billion from various venture capital firms. |
| June 2024 | Sutskever founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy. |
| 2023 | Included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in AI. |
| 2023 | Sutskever announced that he would co-lead OpenAI's new 'Superalignment' project, aiming to solve the alignment of superintelligences within four years. |
| November 2023 | After Altman's return, Sutskever stepped down from the OpenAI board, concluding his leadership role in the organization. |
| November 17 2023 | The OpenAI board fired Sam Altman, with Sutskever stating that the decision was 'the board doing its duty', though he later expressed regret over his participation. |
| 2022 | Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Tweeted about potential consciousness of large neural networks, sparking AI consciousness debates. |
| 2022 | Tweeted about potential consciousness in large neural networks, which triggered widespread AI consciousness debates. |
| 2022 | Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). |
| 2022 | Sutskever was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). |
| 2018 | Sutskever was the keynote speaker at the Nvidia Ntech 2018 and AI Frontiers Conference 2018. |
| 2015 | Sutskever left Google to become cofounder and chief scientist of OpenAI. |
| 2015 | Sutskever was named in MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35. |
| 2015 | Co-founded OpenAI, becoming a key figure in the artificial intelligence research organization. |
| 2013 | Ilya Sutskever earned a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton. |
| 2013 | Google acquired DNNResearch, and Sutskever was hired as a research scientist at Google Brain. |
| 2012 | Sutskever spent about two months as a postdoc with Andrew Ng at Stanford University, then returned to the University of Toronto and joined Hinton's research company DNNResearch. |
| 2012 | He built AlexNet in collaboration with Geoffrey Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky, addressing its computing needs by purchasing many GTX 580 GPUs online. |
| 2012 | Ilya Sutskever spent about two months as a postdoc with Andrew Ng at Stanford University. |
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