由前OpenAI联合创始人Ilya Sutskever创办的人工智能安全公司Safe Superintelligence (SSI)宣布与英伟达建立长期合作伙伴关系[1]。根据知情人士透露，英伟达向SSI投资数十亿美元，其中彭博社报道投资规模为50亿美元[1]。作为合作的核心内容，SSI将获得英伟达Vera Rubin GPU平台的访问权限，其可用计算资源将增加一个数量级[1]。
Sutskever对这一合作表示，"我们拥有值得扩大规模的研究成果，获得英伟达强大计算资源的访问权将使我们能够实现这一目标"[1]。该战略合作旨在支持SSI在实现安全对齐的人工超级智能研究中的扩展工作[1]。SSI此前已在隐形运营两年后宣布了这一合作[1]。根据PitchBook数据，SSI已累计融资70亿美元，估值达320亿美元[1]。除英伟达外，SSI的投资方阵容还包括Andreessen Horowitz、Alphabet、Lightspeed Venture Partners、GV和Sequoia Capital Partners等机构[1]。此前SSI还与Google Cloud建立合作关系以支持其研究工作[1]。
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an AI safety company founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia backed by a multibillion-dollar investment to accelerate its research into safe artificial superintelligence.[1] According to reports, Nvidia's investment commitment amounts to $5 billion, and SSI will gain access to Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPU platform to scale its computational resources by an order of magnitude.[1]
Sutskever characterized the collaboration as essential to the company's research ambitions, stating that SSI possesses "research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so."[1] The partnership represents a significant step for SSI, which has raised $7 billion at a $32 billion valuation according to PitchBook and counts Nvidia, Andreessen Horowitz, Alphabet, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV, and Sequoia Capital Partners among its investors.[1] This announcement comes after SSI operated in stealth mode for two years and follows an earlier collaboration between SSI and Google Cloud to support its research initiatives.[1]