英伟达宣布与Ilya Sutskever创办的安全超级智能实验室（SSI）达成长期战略合作，投资50亿美元，并将向SSI提供下一代Vera Rubin计算平台[1]。根据合作条款，英伟达承诺在未来12个月内使SSI的算力规模提升10倍[1]。Ilya表示，"我们的研究已经到了值得规模化放大的临界点"[1]，英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋表示，"Ilya已经在现代AI的基础领域推动了开创性突破，我们非常期待看到SSI借助我们的Vera Rubin平台，发现哪些新的突破"[1]。
与此同时，英伟达被曝考虑为OpenAI提供高达2500亿美元的融资担保[1]，以支持其在美国俄亥俄州南部建设一个超级算力中心[1]。该项目总造价超过5000亿美元，电力需求达10吉瓦[1]。SSI在成立时获得了320亿美元估值融资和20亿美元资金[1]。这一系列举措表明英伟达正逐步从芯片供应商转变为AI产业的关键参与者，通过算力分配深度参与前沿AI实验室的发展[2]。
Nvidia has announced a long-term strategic partnership with Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), founded by Ilya Sutskever, committing $5 billion in investment and pledging to increase the lab's computing capacity tenfold over the next 12 months [1]. The collaboration marks a significant shift in Nvidia's role from chip supplier to central player in AI industry infrastructure and strategy [2].
SSI, established by Sutskever and Daniel Levy, aims to build safe superintelligent systems [2]. Sutskever stated that "our research has reached a critical point worthy of scaling up," signaling the lab's readiness for expanded operations [1]. Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, remarked that "Ilya has already driven pioneering breakthroughs in the foundational areas of modern AI, and we look forward to seeing what new breakthroughs SSI will discover with our next-generation Vera Rubin platform" [1]. SSI received $2 billion in funding at a $32 billion valuation when it launched [1].
Beyond SSI, Nvidia is reportedly considering providing a $250 billion financing guarantee to OpenAI to support construction of a massive compute center in southern Ohio costing over $500 billion and requiring 10 gigawatts of power [1].
