# Safe Superintelligence revenue, valuation & funding

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Safe Superintelligence was reported valued at $32 billion in April 2025, a figure it hasn't confirmed. Reuters reported in February 2025 that it had no revenue. Nvidia invested in July 2026 with no new valuation disclosed. It's private, with no ticker and no stated IPO plan.

Checked Nov 6, 2026

## At a glance

- Valuation: $32B as reported in April 2025, when it raised $2B. SSI hasn't confirmed it, and Nvidia's July 2026 investment came with no new valuation.
- Revenue: none as of February 2025, according to Reuters. It hasn't released a product.
- Status: private. No stock ticker. No plan to go public has been stated.
- Founded: June 19, 2024, by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy.
- CEO: [Ilya Sutskever](https://realalpha.app/builders/ilya-sutskever/). Daniel Levy is president.
- Investors: Greenoaks, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, DST Global, SV Angel, Alphabet and Nvidia, among others.
- Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, with an office in Tel Aviv.
- Employees: a few dozen as of July 2026, as reported.
- On Real Alpha: 6 moments of its people talking, from 1 interviews

## Is Safe Superintelligence public? Can you buy its stock?

No. Safe Superintelligence is a private company. Its shares don't trade on any stock exchange, and it has no ticker symbol.

[UpMarket](https://www.upmarket.co/private-markets/pre-ipo/safe-superintelligence-inc/) says its shares are not on public exchanges. It offers accredited investors access through secondary market sales.

No IPO filing or stated plan to go public has been reported. Ilya Sutskever and the company have not given a date for a listing.

Its investors include Greenoaks, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Alphabet and Nvidia. Stake sizes haven't been disclosed. This page reports facts and gives no investment advice.

## Valuation, round by round

Its reported valuation went from $5 billion in September 2024 to $32 billion in April 2025, more than six times in seven months.

- Jul 2026 · — · $5B · Nvidia · [CTech by Calcalist](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/qy9eg5jw4)
- Apr 2025 · $32B · $2B · Greenoaks · [CTech by Calcalist](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjfywdtajl)
- Sep 2024 · $5B · $1B · — · [SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/04/ilya-sutskevers-ssi-raises-1b-nvidia-invests-two-ai-startups/)

Reports in February 2025 had SSI in talks at $20 billion or more, and later above $30 billion. SSI hasn't [confirmed](https://theaiinsider.tech/2025/04/14/safe-superintelligence-reportedly-raises-2b-at-32b-valuation-in-pursuit-of-ai-safety-breakthrough/) the $32 billion figure, and no valuation came with Nvidia's July 2026 investment.

## How Safe Superintelligence makes money

It doesn't make money yet. [Reuters](https://theprint.in/tech/exclusive-openai-co-founder-sutskevers-ssi-in-talks-to-be-valued-at-20-billion-sources-say/2484625/) reported in February 2025 that SSI had not generated any revenue.

Its stated aim is to "scale in peace" away from short-term commercial pressures. The [SSI website](https://ssi.inc) says its business model insulates safety, security and progress from those pressures.

The company runs on investor money. It raised $1 billion in September 2024 and $2 billion in April 2025, and Nvidia invested in July 2026.

From Safe Superintelligence's interviews

- [Research prototypes can work without frontier-scale compute](https://realalpha.app/s/research-prototypes-can-work-without-frontier-scale-compute/) · Ilya Sutskever · Dwarkesh Podcast · Nov 25, 2025

## Products

SSI has not released a product. As of July 2026 it also hadn't published research describing its technology, [CTech reported](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/qy9eg5jw4).

Its [website](https://ssi.inc) says it has one goal and one product, a safe superintelligence.

For compute, Google Cloud announced in April 2025 that it would provide TPUs for SSI's research. In July 2026 [NVIDIA](https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2026/Ilya-Sutskevers-Safe-Superintelligence-Inc--and-NVIDIA-Announce-Long-Term-Strategic-Partnership/default.aspx) said SSI would get access to its Vera Rubin platform. NVIDIA says that will raise SSI's compute by an order of magnitude.

- **Safe superintelligence.** The single product SSI says it is building. No public product has launched. · [SSI website](https://ssi.inc)
- **Google Cloud TPUs.** Announced in April 2025 to power SSI's research. · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Superintelligence_Inc.)
- **NVIDIA Vera Rubin.** Access came with the long-term partnership announced on July 27, 2026. · [NVIDIA](https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2026/Ilya-Sutskevers-Safe-Superintelligence-Inc--and-NVIDIA-Announce-Long-Term-Strategic-Partnership/default.aspx)

From Safe Superintelligence's interviews

- [AI has returned to an age of research](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-has-returned-to-an-age-of-research/) · Ilya Sutskever · Dwarkesh Podcast · Nov 25, 2025
- [AGI may be a learner, not a finished mind](https://realalpha.app/s/agi-may-be-a-learner-not-a-finished-mind/) · Ilya Sutskever · Dwarkesh Podcast · Nov 25, 2025
- [Self-play can trade compute for scarce training data](https://realalpha.app/s/self-play-can-trade-compute-for-scarce-training-data/) · Ilya Sutskever · Dwarkesh Podcast · Nov 25, 2025
- [Showing powerful AI could change how people respond](https://realalpha.app/s/showing-powerful-ai-could-change-how-people-respond/) · Ilya Sutskever · Dwarkesh Podcast · Nov 25, 2025

## Leadership

Daniel Gross left in July 2025 to join Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Sutskever became CEO, according to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Superintelligence).

SSI employed only a few dozen people in July 2026, including a research team in Tel Aviv, [CTech reported](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/qy9eg5jw4). [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Superintelligence_Inc.) listed 50 employees as of July 2025.

- **[Ilya Sutskever](https://realalpha.app/builders/ilya-sutskever/),** co-founder and CEO. He said in July 2025 that he is formally CEO and the technical team reports to him. His earlier work runs from AlexNet to OpenAI. · [SSI website](https://ssi.inc/updates)
- **Daniel Levy,** co-founder and president. NVIDIA's July 2026 release names him with Sutskever as SSI's leaders. · [NVIDIA](https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2026/Ilya-Sutskevers-Safe-Superintelligence-Inc--and-NVIDIA-Announce-Long-Term-Strategic-Partnership/default.aspx)
- **Daniel Gross,** co-founder and former CEO. He left SSI on June 29, 2025. · [SSI website](https://ssi.inc/updates)

From Safe Superintelligence's interviews

- [Research taste helps distinguish a bad idea from a buggy experiment](https://realalpha.app/s/research-taste-helps-distinguish-a-bad-idea-from-a-buggy/) · Ilya Sutskever · Dwarkesh Podcast · Nov 25, 2025

## Who owns Safe Superintelligence?

SSI is private and doesn't publish who holds its shares or how much. Its backers are venture firms and two large tech companies.

Meta tried to acquire SSI in the first half of 2025, and Sutskever turned it down, according to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Superintelligence).

- **Greenoaks** led the $2 billion round in April 2025 and reportedly invested $500 million. · [CTech by Calcalist](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjfywdtajl)
- **[Nvidia](https://realalpha.app/companies/#nvidia)** announced an investment and a long-term partnership in July 2026. Reuters put the investment at $5 billion, and neither company disclosed its size. · [CTech by Calcalist](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/qy9eg5jw4)
- **Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, DST Global and SV Angel** invested in the $1 billion round announced in September 2024. · [SSI website](https://ssi.inc/updates)
- **NFDG,** the investment vehicle run by Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, also invested in the 2024 round. · [SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/04/ilya-sutskevers-ssi-raises-1b-nvidia-invests-two-ai-startups/)
- **Lightspeed Venture Partners and Alphabet** backed SSI by the April 2025 round. Google Cloud is a major infrastructure provider. · [CTech by Calcalist](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjfywdtajl)

## Timeline and latest news

- Jul 27, 2026 · SSI and NVIDIA announced a long-term partnership, with an NVIDIA investment and access to Vera Rubin. · [NVIDIA](https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2026/Ilya-Sutskevers-Safe-Superintelligence-Inc--and-NVIDIA-Announce-Long-Term-Strategic-Partnership/default.aspx)
- Jul 27, 2026 · Reuters put Nvidia's investment at $5 billion. Neither company disclosed the size. · [CTech by Calcalist](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/qy9eg5jw4)
- Jul 3, 2025 · SSI posted that Sutskever is formally CEO and Daniel Levy is president. · [SSI website](https://ssi.inc/updates)
- Jul 2025 · Co-founder Daniel Gross left to join Meta Superintelligence Labs. · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Superintelligence)
- Jun 2025 · By mid 2025 Meta had tried to acquire SSI, and Sutskever turned it down. · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Superintelligence)
- Apr 13, 2025 · Raised $2 billion at a reported $32 billion valuation, led by Greenoaks. · [CTech by Calcalist](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjfywdtajl)
- Apr 9, 2025 · Google Cloud announced it would provide TPUs for SSI's research. · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Superintelligence_Inc.)
- Feb 17, 2025 · Bloomberg reported SSI was raising more than $1 billion at above $30 billion. · [CTech by Calcalist](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bk23kmb9ye)
- Feb 7, 2025 · Reuters reported early talks to raise at a valuation of at least $20 billion. · [Reuters (via ThePrint)](https://theprint.in/tech/exclusive-openai-co-founder-sutskevers-ssi-in-talks-to-be-valued-at-20-billion-sources-say/2484625/)
- Feb 7, 2025 · Reuters reported that SSI had not generated any revenue. · [Reuters (via ThePrint)](https://theprint.in/tech/exclusive-openai-co-founder-sutskevers-ssi-in-talks-to-be-valued-at-20-billion-sources-say/2484625/)
- Sep 4, 2024 · Announced a $1 billion raise from NFDG, a16z, Sequoia, DST Global and SV Angel. · [SSI website](https://ssi.inc/updates)
- Jun 19, 2024 · Founded by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy. · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Superintelligence_Inc.)

## In their own words, and what followed

- [Research prototypes can work without frontier-scale compute](https://realalpha.app/s/research-prototypes-can-work-without-frontier-scale-compute/) · Ilya Sutskever · Dwarkesh Podcast · Nov 25, 2025
  > “No single transformer paper experiment used more than 64 GPUs of 2017”
  Reported after · In July 2026 SSI and NVIDIA announced a partnership giving SSI access to Vera Rubin. NVIDIA says it will raise SSI's compute by an order of magnitude. · [NVIDIA](https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2026/Ilya-Sutskevers-Safe-Superintelligence-Inc--and-NVIDIA-Announce-Long-Term-Strategic-Partnership/default.aspx)

- [AI has returned to an age of research](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-has-returned-to-an-age-of-research/) · Ilya Sutskever · Dwarkesh Podcast · Nov 25, 2025
  > “So it's back to the age of research again, just with big computers.”
  Reported after · As of July 2026 SSI had yet to release a product or publish research describing its technology, CTech reported. · [CTech by Calcalist](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/qy9eg5jw4)

## What others say about Safe Superintelligence

- [OpenAI canceled its alignment team months after a four-year pledge](https://realalpha.app/s/openai-canceled-its-alignment-team-months-after-a-four-year/) · Roman Yampolskiy · The Diary Of A CEO · Sep 4, 2025
  > “billions of dollars working on safe superintelligence we haven't seen their output yet”
- [A neocloud security gap exposed other customers’ workloads](https://realalpha.app/s/a-neocloud-security-gap-exposed-other-customers-workloads/) · Dylan Patel · Big Technology Podcast · Oct 9, 2026
  > “safe super intelligence ssi they were the first you know trump actually copied ilia”

## Questions people ask

### Is Safe Superintelligence a public company? Can I buy SSI stock?

No. SSI is private and has no ticker. [UpMarket](https://www.upmarket.co/private-markets/pre-ipo/safe-superintelligence-inc/) says its shares are not on public exchanges.

### When will Safe Superintelligence IPO?

SSI hasn't announced any plan to go public, and no filing has been reported.

### Who owns Safe Superintelligence?

Its investors include Greenoaks, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, DST Global, SV Angel, Alphabet and Nvidia. Stakes haven't been disclosed.

### Who is the CEO of Safe Superintelligence?

[Ilya Sutskever](https://realalpha.app/builders/ilya-sutskever/). He became formally CEO in July 2025, after co-founder Daniel Gross left.

### Who founded Safe Superintelligence?

Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, on June 19, 2024.

### How much is Safe Superintelligence worth?

$32 billion at its April 2025 round, as [CTech reported](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjfywdtajl). SSI hasn't confirmed it, and no valuation came with Nvidia's July 2026 investment.

### Did Nvidia invest in Safe Superintelligence?

Yes. [NVIDIA](https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2026/Ilya-Sutskevers-Safe-Superintelligence-Inc--and-NVIDIA-Announce-Long-Term-Strategic-Partnership/default.aspx) announced an investment and a long-term partnership in July 2026. Reuters put the investment at $5 billion, and neither company disclosed its size.

### How much revenue does Safe Superintelligence make?

None reported. [Reuters](https://theprint.in/tech/exclusive-openai-co-founder-sutskevers-ssi-in-talks-to-be-valued-at-20-billion-sources-say/2484625/) reported in February 2025 that SSI had not generated any revenue.

### Is Safe Superintelligence profitable?

It has reported no revenue and publishes no results. No profit or loss figures have been reported.

### How does Safe Superintelligence make money?

It doesn't yet. Its [website](https://ssi.inc) says it has one goal and one product, a safe superintelligence, built away from short-term commercial pressures.

### Does Safe Superintelligence have users or customers?

No public product has launched, so it has no reported users. It employed a few dozen people in July 2026, [CTech reported](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/qy9eg5jw4).

### Where is Safe Superintelligence headquartered?

Palo Alto, California, with an office in Tel Aviv. The [SSI website](https://ssi.inc) calls it an American company with offices in both cities.

## Every moment from Safe Superintelligence's people

### Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Dwarkesh Podcast · Nov 25, 2025

- [AI has returned to an age of research](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-has-returned-to-an-age-of-research/) · 7 min
- [Showing powerful AI could change how people respond](https://realalpha.app/s/showing-powerful-ai-could-change-how-people-respond/) · 8 min
- [Research prototypes can work without frontier-scale compute](https://realalpha.app/s/research-prototypes-can-work-without-frontier-scale-compute/) · 7 min
- [AGI may be a learner, not a finished mind](https://realalpha.app/s/agi-may-be-a-learner-not-a-finished-mind/) · 7 min
- [Self-play can trade compute for scarce training data](https://realalpha.app/s/self-play-can-trade-compute-for-scarce-training-data/) · 4 min
- [Research taste helps distinguish a bad idea from a buggy experiment](https://realalpha.app/s/research-taste-helps-distinguish-a-bad-idea-from-a-buggy/) · 3 min

## People on Real Alpha

- [Ilya Sutskever](https://realalpha.app/builders/ilya-sutskever/), Co-founder & CEO, Safe Superintelligence

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