According to Reuters, Safe Superinterigence, an AI startup founded by former Openai chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $20 billion.
It's not clear how much safety a secure Superintelligence, which has not yet generated revenue, is still in place, but it can be substantial. The new figures are four times the $5 billion valuation held by the company last September.
Little is known about the work of Safe Superintelligence. The company, which counts former Openy researcher Daniel Levy and former Apple AI projects, has sourced Daniel Gross' lead Daniel Gross in its founding team. Existing investors include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and DST Global.
Sutskever is widely respected for its AI and wider technology. He is believed to have contributed to major AI breakthroughs at Openai, including the technical approach that enabled the development of ChatGpt.