Tag Archives: Illya Sutskever

Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company

Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever physically gestures as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on at Tel Aviv University on June 5, 2023. reader comments 211 On Wednesday, former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever announced he is forming a new company called Safe Superintelligence, Inc. (SSI) with the goal of safely building “superintelligence,” which is a hypothetical… Read More »

Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI six months after Altman ouster

Enlarge / An image Illya Sutskever tweeted with this OpenAI resignation announcement. From left to right: New OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, President Greg Brockman, Sutskever, CEO Sam Altman, and CTO Mira Murati. reader comments 26 On Tuesday evening, OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever announced that he is leaving the company he co-founded, six months… Read More »

OpenAI responds to Elon Musk lawsuit by clarifying its “open“ nature

Benj Edwards / Getty Images reader comments 55 On Tuesday, OpenAI published a blog post titled “OpenAI and Elon Musk” in response to a lawsuit Musk filed last week. The ChatGPT maker shared several archived emails from Musk that suggest he once supported a pivot away from open source practices in the company’s quest to… Read More »

Sam Altman officially back as OpenAI CEO: “We didn’t lose a single employee”

OpenAI / Benj Edwards reader comments 67 with On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that Sam Altman has officially returned to the ChatGPT-maker as CEO—accompanied by Mira Murati as CTO and Greg Brockman as president—resuming their roles from before the shocking firing of Altman that threw the company into turmoil two weeks ago. Altman says the company… Read More »