--- title: Nvidia invests in Sutskever's SSI to 10x its compute description: Nvidia has made a 'substantial' undisclosed investment in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the secretive AI lab founded by Ilya Sutskever after leaving OpenAI.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-invests-in-sutskever-s-ssi-to-10x-its-compute-9s2dlxgpt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Nvidia invests in Sutskever's SSI to 10x its compute | daily.dev og:description: Nvidia has made a 'substantial' undisclosed investment in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the secretive AI lab founded by Ilya Sutskever after leaving OpenAI.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-invests-in-sutskever-s-ssi-to-10x-its-compute-9s2dlxgpt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9S2dLXgPT.png og:image:alt: Nvidia invests in Sutskever's SSI to 10x its compute og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Nvidia invests in Sutskever's SSI to 10x its compute **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nvidia has made a 'substantial' undisclosed investment in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the secretive AI lab founded by Ilya Sutskever after leaving OpenAI. The deal will allow SSI to 10x its compute within 12 months and grants access to Nvidia's newly production-ready Vera Rubin platform. SSI, which has raised ~$3bn at a $32bn valuation while shipping no products, signaled its research has reached a point worth scaling. Nvidia reportedly reviewed SSI's internal research before investing — a rare concession from the notoriously closed lab. The deal fits a broader pattern of chipmakers buying stakes in AI labs, mirroring AMD's $5bn investment in Anthropic. Critics note the circular nature of such deals, where lab money flows back to chip suppliers. Nvidia shares fell 2.3% on the news, reflecting investor skepticism about AI spending translating into external revenue. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why did Nvidia invest in Safe Superintelligence if the company has no product or revenue? Nvidia invested after getting a rare look at the state of SSI's research, a level of access the secretive lab has not given anyone else. The investment lets SSI increase its compute tenfold within 12 months and gives it access to Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform, which reached full production this month. The deal is also framed as competitive defense, keeping a high-profile AI lab from a rival chipmaker. _daily.dev keeps engineers current on how chipmaker investments reshape access to compute for AI research._ ### What is Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform and who is using it? Vera Rubin is Nvidia's newest hardware platform, which reached full production status. OpenAI is deploying the same generation of hardware at scale, and supply is described as the binding constraint across the AI industry. Safe Superintelligence gained access to this platform as part of Nvidia's investment, placing a company with no shipped product in the same hardware queue as OpenAI's large-scale deployment. _daily.dev helps developers track which AI labs get priority access to scarce GPU platforms like Vera Rubin._ ### How much has Safe Superintelligence raised and what is it worth? Safe Superintelligence has raised roughly $3 billion from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global, reaching a $32 billion valuation before Nvidia's additional investment. The company, founded by Ilya Sutskever after he left OpenAI in May 2024, has shipped no products and has said it does not intend to sell AI products in the near future. _daily.dev tracks funding and valuation shifts for developers weighing where serious AI research talent is heading._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research](https://daily.dev/posts/ilya-sutskever-s-safe-superintelligence-partners-with-nvidia-to-scale-its-ai-research-gwem8u74o) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Billion-Dollar Deal Reshaping Nvidia and OpenAI’s AI Ambitions](https://daily.dev/posts/the-billion-dollar-deal-reshaping-nvidia-and-openai-s-ai-ambitions-ebvdyugjr) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Sequoia and Nvidia back David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1B](https://daily.dev/posts/sequoia-and-nvidia-back-david-silver-s-ineffable-intelligence-at-5-1b-daj8vmkps) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#nvidia](https://daily.dev/tags/nvidia) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-invests-in-sutskever-s-ssi-to-10x-its-compute-9s2dlxgpt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Nvidia invests in Sutskever's SSI to 10x its compute","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-invests-in-sutskever-s-ssi-to-10x-its-compute-9s2dlxgpt","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-invests-in-sutskever-s-ssi-to-10x-its-compute-9s2dlxgpt"},"datePublished":"2026-07-27T15:57:39.269Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:16:27.764Z","description":"Nvidia has made a 'substantial' undisclosed investment in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the secretive AI lab founded by Ilya Sutskever after leaving OpenAI....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/307e369b5a85fad03adebc411b036389?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/307e369b5a85fad03adebc411b036389?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-invests-in-sutskever-s-ssi-to-10x-its-compute-9s2dlxgpt","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"llm,nvidia","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Nvidia invests in Sutskever's SSI to 10x its compute"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-invests-in-sutskever-s-ssi-to-10x-its-compute-9s2dlxgpt#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Why did Nvidia invest in Safe Superintelligence if the company has no product or revenue?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Nvidia invested after getting a rare look at the state of SSI's research, a level of access the secretive lab has not given anyone else. 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