Nvidia and Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence announce a long-term partnership
Reuters and Bloomberg put Nvidia’s equity investment at $5B
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- 13 October 2026
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Key facts
- Announced Monday July 27, 2026 in a joint press release, ‘Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence Inc. and NVIDIA Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership’; financial terms were not disclosed
- Amount: Nvidia will make a $5 billion equity investment, according to ‘a person briefed on the deal’ (Reuters, Deepa Seetharaman, July 27); Bloomberg reported the figure first. TechCrunch’s source said only that it runs into multiple billions (via secondary reports)
- Compute (press release, via Evertiq and search summaries): the investment ‘combined with access to the next-generation, best-in-class NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform will allow SSI to increase its compute by an order of magnitude’
- The companies will also ‘collaborate on the technical advancement of NVIDIA’s current and future compute platforms’, drawing on SSI’s views of where AI is heading
- On SSI’s work: Nvidia says SSI has been ‘quietly advancing a new research direction’ toward powerful, robustly aligned AI, and that it invested after rare access to SSI’s closely guarded research
- Ilya Sutskever (SSI co-founder and CEO): ‘We have research that is worthy of scaling up, and having access to a big Nvidia computer will let us do so.’
- Jensen Huang: ‘We are excited to see what new breakthroughs SSI will discover powered by our Vera Rubin platform.’
- Reuters: two people briefed on the matter said the deal came together within a matter of weeks
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- SSI, founded in June 2024 with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, has shipped no product and published no research; its stated plan is to build safe superintelligence as its only product
- Not verified: one secondary report gives SSI’s total funding as $7B and a $32B post-money valuation after the deal; we found no primary source for these numbers
What happened
Safe Superintelligence, which Ilya Sutskever co-founded in June 2024 after leaving OpenAI, has kept its research private and has no product. On July 27, 2026 it and Nvidia announced a “long-term strategic partnership”: Nvidia invests in SSI and gives it access to the Vera Rubin platform, which SSI says will multiply its compute by about ten. The two will also work together on Nvidia’s current and future platforms. The release does not give an amount. Reuters, citing a person briefed on the deal, and Bloomberg reported a $5 billion equity investment.
This entry was written on Oct 13, 2026 as a backfill. We read the Reuters story (as republished by The Star) and Evertiq’s report directly; the press release wording is quoted from Evertiq and from search summaries of Nvidia’s investor page, which we did not open. The $5B figure is sourced reporting, not a company statement, hence confidence medium.
Why it matters
It is among the largest single investments in a lab with no product and no published results, and it came one day before Sutskever signed the “Pacing the Frontier” statement with other lab leaders. It also continues Nvidia’s pattern of financing its own customers: the investment returns to Nvidia as demand for Vera Rubin systems.
Sources
4 sources from 4 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 1 primary, 3 press
Primary
- Nvidia (investor site): Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence Inc. and NVIDIA Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnershipinvestor.nvidia.com, official
Press
- Reuters (via The Star): Nvidia to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup, source saysthestar.com.my, press
- Evertiq: Nvidia to invest $5B in startup, accesses its ‘closely guarded research’evertiq.com, press
- DatacenterDynamics: Nvidia to invest $5bn in Safe Superintelligence (not readable by our fetcher)datacenterdynamics.com, press
Changes
- Filed as a review (which repeated the July report)