According to the latest news from the tech investment world, Alphabet and Nvidia are reported to be investing in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), one of the highest-profile startups working on AI model research. Reuters reported that a source familiar with the matter broke silence over this concealed deal.
SSI was founded by Ilya Sutskever in 2024, after parting ways with OpenAI. The co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI clashed with Altman over the speed of development with which the AI chatbot should be developed. After launching his start-up SSI, the company became one of the most valuable intelligence startups. This closed investment, yet unconfirmed by the companies involved, indicates potential growth and massive demand of computing power by the startup company. Notably, SSI was valued at $32 billion in a round led by Greenoaks.
Google Cloud Expanding Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)
Google Cloud has long kept its TPUs for in-house purposes. Recently, the company was reported to finalize a deal, giving SSI access to TPUs. Google Cloud announced that SSI will be using TPUs to
‘’accelerate its research and development efforts toward building a safe and superintelligent AI.’’
This new concealed deal between Alphabet and SSI seems like the next development of the big tech supporting AI startups. Potentially, the tech giant sees SSI to be a major computing customer.
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