Safe Superintelligence

“SSI says that they're going to come out with, you know, with their model in August, you know, there's this whole generation of new labs that are focused on this.”

“And NVIDIA decided to make a big strategic investment in them, five billion dollars for a company that doesn't have a product.”

“And I just, you haven't seen in the history of AI development, big breakthroughs happen in secret. These usually, you know, these papers come out, they ping pong around everybody, you know, it cross pollinates and then people come up with ideas around the same…”

“Definitely not. I mean, if you think about, just think about where AI is today compared to where it was then. I think we could both agree that the AI, the promise of AI is more real now than it was.”

“I don't think that they're going to do a deal. That's like, you know, the thirty billion dollar, 3040, fifty billion dollars that it would take to buy safe, super intelligence just to do that.”

“Their whole strategy is one shot to safe super intelligence. So they haven't put out a product yet, and so therefore a bunch of the risks that come when you put the product out in the world, they don't have to deal with.”

“Zuckerberg tried to spend thirty two billion on Ilya Suskever's AI start, startup, safe super intelligence. Suskever ultimately turned Meta down.”

“Well, Ilya obviously has raised billions without releasing a product.”

“Safe super intelligence with this Ilya, the old CTO of open AI's company just raised at a thirty four billion dollar valuation. And what, how much money are they making? Zero.”

“With a LickPref, there is zero chance this does not get bought for at least LickPref.”

“The basic question is, can you get this like closed loop where you build the AIs which are helping you accelerate AI research, dot, dot, dot, super intelligence? I'm like, fifty-fifty on that question.”

“Ilya Sutskiver in Bloomberg is raising more than one billion dollars for his startup at a valuation of over thirty billion.”

“Green Oaks is in. They're putting in 500 mil said the person who asked not to be identified.”

“So they have pledged not to release a product until it has achieved a safe super intelligence.”

“Intelligence is, is so valuable and LLMs and AI is so valuable that, that, you know, yeah, even if you're like the sixth best model, you can still sell the intelligence if it's at the frontier level to the market at a market clearing price that still generates…”

“There's also kind of the biggest seed round ever, right, that we saw. Safe superintelligence helmed by Former OpenAI chief scientist and co-founder Ilya Sutskover raising roughly a billion dollars in cash at a five billion dollar valuation pre-basically anythi…”

“And I'm not bullish about that pitch because I think it makes the company a little bit schizophrenic. It's working at cross purposes with itself.”