NVIDIA Acquires Sutskever: Invests in SSI Lab, Adding a Major Piece to Its Computing Power Portfolio
Nvidia has made a substantial investment in SSI, the secretive lab of former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, per WSJ. In exchange for a large number of flagship GPUs, the lab aims to boost computing power by an order of magnitude, having previously relied on Google TPUs. This marks a rare direct bet by Nvidia on frontier AI safety research.....