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How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 · 2 mentions

Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day Aug 3, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 30:02 Alex Kantrowitz Um, Safe Super Intelligence, which is run by Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI, where I kind of, out of nowhere, Ilya's like, all right, we have a breakthrough, uh, and now it's time to put a lot of compute behind it. 6 times in the scene

AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried Jun 4, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 42:57 Alex Kantrowitz Um, your former grad student, Ilya Sidskever, continues to be a, uh, person of fascination in the AI industry. 4 times in the scene

How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika Feb 18, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:07 Alex Kantrowitz There's this idea that, uh, former Googler Ilya Suzuki ever had that if we're going to get towards AGI, maybe the world is going to have to be papered with data centers, but you put them in space, maybe we can have the rest of the earth…

AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball Jan 13, 2026 · 1 mention

Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push Dec 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:30 M.G. Siegler Leon, the kind of, of course, famously has, has stepped away from meta to go work on that, but also, um, Ilya, that's all he basically talked about.

OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity Nov 10, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 14:23 Ranjan Roy and then we're going to talk about the Ilya Sam, uh, uh, battles of the past, but it's almost like she, she shows up at open AI and suddenly her entire comm strategy is like, uh, Elon situation or, or just kind of this kind of like, you…
  • ▶ 49:38 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, that had Ilya Sitskever, the former OpenAI chief scientist, um, his, uh, testimony about what happened inside OpenAI before Sam Altman was fired. 8 times in the scene

OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot Nov 3, 2025 · 1 mention

AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO? Oct 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching? Aug 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:21 Alex Kantrowitz I'd still, I still would be, uh, maybe, uh, surprised, but not shocked if they say it's AGI, but I think super intelligence is not going to be, uh, I don't know, just to, just to go after Ilya a bit, he just made his whole new startup safe… 2 times in the scene

Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler Aug 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:42 M.G. Siegler I think actually when Ilya Sutskiver spun out and made his company called Safe Super Intelligence, right?

Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars Jul 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:41 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, Ilya Suskever, one of the former chief scientists of OpenAI, now the guy who's running safe super intelligence, um, he's had this vision that, like, the world is going to be wallpapered with data centers as the scaling laws continue…

Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:26:06 Ed Zitron Ilya Sutsukeva, respect to the guy for just doing his own scam, Miramarati, same deal.

OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:25 Aaron Levie I mean, clearly you have people like Ilya where, you know, it's rumored that he's working on a different architecture or, and, and, and maybe a different path, um, and then obviously you have other people that are, are, you know, let's… 2 times in the scene

The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch Jun 30, 2025 · 4 mentions

OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree Jun 23, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 35:57 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Zuckerberg tried to spend thirty two billion on Ilya Suskever's, uh, AI start, startup, safe super intelligence. 6 times in the scene

Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition Jun 18, 2025 · 5 mentions

Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos Jun 14, 2025 · 4 mentions

Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play Nov 15, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:44 Alex Kantrowitz So this is, uh, Ilya Suskever has talked about it. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:10 Alex Kantrowitz In recent times, there has been a development of a new discipline here, which is reasoning, and we talked about it back in the day, and that's what sort of freaked Ilya out, and he left

Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For? Sep 13, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:25 Alex Kantrowitz Right, so do you think that Elia was, let's say Elia was spooked by these type of capabilities? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:38 Alex Kantrowitz Look, Ilya's gone, he just raised a billion, and John Shulman's gone, and, and he's at Anthropic now, and, you know, the, the rest of the leadership team has thinned out, and there's been staff exodus, and OpenAI ruined itself, and I think…

What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About Jul 3, 2024 · 1 mention

Box CEO Aaron Levie — Audience Q&A: AI Agents, AI Talent, Evolution of Work May 23, 2024 · 2 mentions

AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 · 6 mentions

Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War Dec 4, 2023 · 3 mentions

Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI Nov 18, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:11 Alex Kantrowitz And Ilya Sitzkever, who's the chief AI researcher, told the staff the experience will make us feel closer as they pick up the pieces from Altman's departure.
  • ▶ 8:33 Sharon Goldman That, uh, you know, Greg Brockman, I think Ilya Sutskiver, I think Mira, I think there's a lot of people in place.
  • ▶ 16:57 Sharon Goldman Um, when I looked into the members of that board, there are three employee members, um, Sam Altman, now gone, Greg Brockman, president, now off the board, but still at the company, and Ilya, who is the chief scientist, and there are three…
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