# Safe Superintelligence and Nvidia announce $5 billion partnership

> Safe Superintelligence, the secretive startup Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, has struck a $5 billion partnership with Nvidia that hands it access to the chipmaker's next-generation Vera Rubin compute platform. For a company that has shipped no product and says it will not until it reaches its single goal, that is an enormous vote of confidence, and a reminder that raw compute is now the currency that matters most in frontier AI. SSI's pitch, shared by co-founders Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, is deliberately narrow: a straight shot at building safe, aligned superintelligence with no commercial distractions to pull focus or leak the roadmap. The Nvidia deal follows a $1 billion round at founding and a reported $2 billion raise that valued the company around $32 billion, with backers including a16z, Alphabet and Sequoia. What makes this interesting is less the dollar figure than the bet behind it: some of the deepest pockets in tech are funding a lab whose entire theory of value is patience, wagering that a small team with massive compute can leapfrog everyone still shipping quarterly.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Tuesday, September 1, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Safe Superintelligence, the secretive startup Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, has struck a $5 billion partnership with Nvidia that hands it access to the chipmaker's next-generation Vera Rubin compute platform. For a company that has shipped no product and says it will not until it reaches its single goal, that is an enormous vote of confidence, and a reminder that raw compute is now the currency that matters most in frontier AI. SSI's pitch, shared by co-founders Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, is deliberately narrow: a straight shot at building safe, aligned superintelligence with no commercial distractions to pull focus or leak the roadmap. The Nvidia deal follows a $1 billion round at founding and a reported $2 billion raise that valued the company around $32 billion, with backers including a16z, Alphabet and Sequoia. What makes this interesting is less the dollar figure than the bet behind it: some of the deepest pockets in tech are funding a lab whose entire theory of value is patience, wagering that a small team with massive compute can leapfrog everyone still shipping quarterly.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-partners-with-nvidia-to-scale-its-ai-research/)

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