SANTA CLARA, Calif. and PALO ALTO, Calif., July 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) and NVIDIA today announced a long-term partnership to rapidly accelerate SSI’s strategic growth. NVIDIA has additionally made an investment in SSI.
For SSI, NVIDIA’s substantial investment combined with access to the next-generation, best-in-class NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform will allow SSI to increase its compute by an order of magnitude. The two companies will also collaborate on the technical advancement of NVIDIA’s current and future compute platforms, leveraging SSI’s unique insights into the future of AI.
For the last two years, SSI has been quietly advancing a new research direction to unlock a powerful and robustly aligned artificial intelligence. NVIDIA entered this partnership to accelerate SSI’s next stage of growth after obtaining rare access into the company’s closely guarded research.
“Ilya has pioneered fundamental breakthroughs at the foundation of modern AI, beginning with AlexNet,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “We are excited to see what new breakthroughs SSI will discover powered by our Vera Rubin platform.”
“We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so,” said Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and CEO of SSI. “We’re incredibly proud to be partnering with Jensen and the NVIDIA team, and we are confident that our big bet on the Vera Rubin platform will take us to the next level.”
About SSI
Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) is the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence. Founded in 2024, the company is led by Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy. Sutskever’s research laid the foundation for modern AI, with contributions to AlexNet, AlphaGo, Sequence-to-Sequence learning, and the GPT models. He also spearheaded the research that led to reasoning models such as OpenAI o1. SSI’s investors include Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA is the world leader in AI and accelerated computing.
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