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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