Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the secretive AI startup launched by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, has attracted $2 billion in capital from investors, including Google parent Alphabet and US chip giant Nvidia.

According to a report by Reuters, the investments are part of a financing round that values the AI startup at a staggering $32 billion. Sutskever, who also served as OpenAI’s chief scientist, launched SSI back in June, together with Daniel Gross, a serial startup entrepreneur and former AI lead at Apple, and Daniel Levy, a former member of the technical staff at OpenAI.

Since coming out of stealth, SSI, which operates out of Silicon Valley and has a research lab in Tel Aviv, hasn’t yet presented any technology or product. The secretive startup has in recent months focused on raising funds to continue to expand and build its team in Tel Aviv, hiring top engineers, and recently relocating to new offices, as well as building a small team in........

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