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Ilya Sutskever's new AI super-intelligence startup raises a billion dollars. Unclear what they actually do. (www.reuters.com)
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/

http://web.archive.org/web/20240904174555/https://ssi.inc/

I have nothing witty or insightful to say, but figured this probably deserved a post. I flipped a coin between sneerclub and techtakes.

They aren't interested in anything besides "superintelligence" which strikes me as an optimistic business strategy. If you are "cracked" you can join them:

We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

I'm just amused that their scaling program doesn't scale properly. Due to the hungry hungry AI needing more and more data.