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Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B

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Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B

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Post by codingwagie »

sirspacey wrote: post #85

Lots of dismissive comments here. Ilya proved himself as a leader, scientist, and engineer over the past decade with OpenAI for creating break-through after break-through that no one else had. He’s raised enough to compete at the level of Grok, Claude, et al. He’s offering investors a pure play AGI investment, possibly one of the only organizations available to do so. Who else would you give $1B to pursue that? That’…

I'm also confused by the negativity on here. Ilya had a direct role in creating the algorithms and systems that created modern LLMs. He pioneered the first deep learning computer vision models.

Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B

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Post by koolala »

Doesn't this corrupt SafeAI's safe vision just like $1,000,000,000 corrupted OpenAI's open vision?

How can investment like this not transform a company's mission into eventually paying back Billions and making Billions of dollars?

Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B

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Post by mholm »

_ttg wrote: post #32

i get that they're probably busy making AGI but surely they can spare a few hours to make a proper website? or is this some 4d-chess countersignalling i'm too stupid to notice?

'Proper' websites are marketing and signalling. If you're creating a company that doesn't intend to do either of those till it has a product, why bother with more?

Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B

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Post by layer8 »

fkyoureadthedoc wrote: post #50
HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if "Super Intelligence" means anything .. just LLMs, or maybe they are pursuing new architectures and shooting for AGI ?

It's certainly in their best interest not to tell us that it's just going to be another pile of LLMs that they've trained not to say or do anything that isn't business friendly.

I believe they mean security as in “won’t enslave humanity”, not “won’t offend anyone”.

Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B

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Post by golergka »

Zelphyr wrote: post #63
paxys wrote: post #13

$1B raise, $5B valuation. For a company that is a couple months old and doesn't have a product or even a single line of code in production. Wild.

It's 1999 all over again.

May be it's 1999, and may be it's 2010. I remember when Facebook's $10b valuation was considered crazy.

Re: Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B

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Post by yawnxyz »

Yizahi wrote: post #61
paxys wrote: post #13

$1B raise, $5B valuation. For a company that is a couple months old and doesn't have a product or even a single line of code in production. Wild.

This feels like a situation with a sold out train to a popular destination, where people are already reselling their tickets for some crazy markup, and then suddenly railway decides to add one more train car and opens flash ticket sale. Investors feeling missing out on OpenAI and others are now hoping to catch this last train ticket to the AI.

Isn't that what happened to Evergrande
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