Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Partners with Nvidia in $5B Deal

What happened

Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) and Nvidia announced a long-term strategic partnership on July 27, 2026. Nvidia also made an investment in SSI, which Bloomberg reported at $5 billion.

Context and impact

SSI had been in stealth mode for two years since its 2024 founding. The partnership gives SSI access to Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin GPU platform, which will increase the company's compute by an order of magnitude. This is SSI's first major public action since its founding.

Details

• SSI gains access to the Nvidia Vera Rubin next-gen platform
• Nvidia invested approximately $5B according to Bloomberg
• Both companies will collaborate on advancing current and future Nvidia compute platforms
• Jensen Huang: "Ilya has pioneered fundamental breakthroughs at the foundation of modern AI, beginning with AlexNet"
• Sutskever: "We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big NVIDIA computer will let us do so"
• SSI has one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence