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Superintelligence Lab

Safe Superintelligence (SSI)

Build safe superintelligence. One product, one goal.

Valuation$32B
Funding~$3B tracked
FlagshipNo public product (by design)
Founded2024 · Palo Alto
84
Bright Sentience Score
Rank #7 of 23
What they're building

Ilya Sutskever's company is explicitly trying to build safe superintelligence, not another chatbot. It has no product roadmap, no revenue and no public model, and it ranks near the top of AI-company trajectory measures anyway, because the people and the thesis are the asset.

Latest developments
  • Ranked #1 by AI-company trajectory on TrueUp (October 2026).
  • Ilya Sutskever took over as CEO after Daniel Gross departed in 2025.
  • Continues to recruit a small team of researchers with no public releases.
Why it matters

If a straight shot at superintelligence is possible, SSI is the purest bet on it. It is the company most likely to surprise everyone with a single release.

Score breakdown
Frontier tech
85
Capital
80
Talent
98
Momentum
85
Impact
70

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Key facts
Leader
Ilya Sutskever
Founders
Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy
People
Ilya Sutskever (CEO, Chief Scientist), Daniel Levy
HQ
Palo Alto, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel
Latest model
Undisclosed
Valuation note
Last reported round (2025); ~$3B tracked funding
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, DST Global, SV Angel, Greenoaks, Alphabet, Nvidia
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