Reported 11 days ago
Alphabet and Nvidia, alongside other venture capital investors, are backing Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a rapidly growing AI startup co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, former chief scientist at OpenAI. This funding highlights a renewed interest from tech giants in investing in startup companies that develop advanced AI requiring significant computing resources. SSI, recently valued at $32 billion, primarily utilizes Alphabet's tensor processing units instead of the more common graphics processing units, indicating a shift in AI hardware strategies among major players.
Source: YAHOO