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Ilya Sutskever

Co-Founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc. · 0 appearances on the record.

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Everything Ilya Sutskever said on TBPN that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

The other half of the tape: Ilya Sutskever's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 94 times in 39 episodes on TBPN. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most John Coogan 24Jordi Hays 5Dwarkesh Patel 3Satya Nadella 1Lulu Cheng Meservey 1Jordan Higgins 1

Statements about Ilya Sutskever, by other people (3)

Opinion
Coogan: DeepSeek R1 Trails OpenAI by 18 Months and Lacks 0-to-1 Innovation
“Basically, you know, for years, that's covered and working on ways to allow language models, like GPT four to solve tasks that involved reasoning, like math and science problems in 20, 21, he launched a project called GPT zero. What did they launch? Deep seek …”
John Coogan Jan 28, 2025 ▶ 49:52 DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Ilya Sutskever's SSI is raising $1B+ at over $30B valuation
“Ilya Sutskiver in Bloomberg is raising more than one billion dollars for his startup at a valuation of over thirty billion.”
John Coogan Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 9:13 How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Ilya Sutskever's SSI recently received a large NVIDIA compute cluster
“SSI, Ilya Sutskiver's new, Neolab is recently got a big cluster from NVIDIA”
John Coogan Sep 12, 2026 ▶ 8:53 Washington Hones in on AI Safety, What Are AI Doomers Proposing | Diet TBPN

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2026 40 mentions in 16 episodes 3 per episode
2025 51 mentions in 20 episodes 3 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Ilya Sutskever was played rather than Ilya taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

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Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel Reaction, NVIDIA vs Google, Trump Unveils Genesis | Diet Nov 26, 2025 21s clip played
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