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Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence, which he started in 2024 to pursue safe superintelligence. He previously co-founded OpenAI, serving first as research director and then chief scientist. Before OpenAI, he worked at Google Brain following Google's acquisition of DNNResearch, the company he founded with Geoffrey Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky. His research includes AlexNet and sequence-to-sequence learning. He earned his bachelor's in mathematics, master's in computer science and PhD at the University of Toronto, studying under Hinton.
- Based in
- San Francisco
Safe Superintelligence
Jun 2025 — Present
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founded SSI in June 2024; became CEO in 2025.
Safe Superintelligence
Jun 2024 — Jun 2025Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
Founding chief scientist.
OpenAI
Nov 2018 — May 2024
Co-founder and Chief Scientist
Co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as research director, later became chief scientist, and co-led Superalignment with Jan Leike.
OpenAI
Dec 2015 — Nov 2018Co-Founder & Research Director
Founding research director.
Research Scientist
Researched deep learning on the Google Brain team and co-authored sequence-to-sequence learning with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc V. Le.
DNNResearch
Dec 2012 — Mar 2013Co-founder
Co-founded the neural-network research company with Geoffrey Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky; Google acquired it in 2013.
Stanford University
Nov 2012 — Dec 2012
Postdoctoral Researcher
Postdoctoral researcher in Andrew Ng’s group.
University of Toronto
PhD, Computer Science
University of Toronto
MSc, Computer Science
University of Toronto
Honours BSc, Mathematics
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