Ilya Sutskever co-founded and leads Safe Superintelligence, pursuing advanced AI with safety as the company’s central objective. Previously OpenAI’s chief scientist and a Google Brain researcher, he co-authored influential work on image recognition and sequence-to-sequence learning.
Ilya Sutskever co-founded and leads Safe Superintelligence, pursuing advanced AI with safety as the company’s central objective. Previously OpenAI’s chief scientist and a Google Brain researcher, he co-authored influential work on image recognition and sequence-to-sequence learning.
Career
Ilya Sutskever attended University of Toronto, earning a PhD (2013) and MSc (2007), Computer Science; BSc, Mathematics (2005).
Co-founder and CEO at Safe Superintelligence from 2025-07 to Present.Co-founded SSI in 2024 and became CEO in July 2025, leading research toward safe superintelligence. SSI announced a partnership with NVIDIA in July 2026 to expand its compute.
Co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI from 2018-11 to 2024-05.Co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as research director, later became chief scientist, and co-led Superalignment with Jan Leike.
Research Scientist at Google from 2013-03 to 2015-12.Researched deep learning on the Google Brain team and co-authored sequence-to-sequence learning with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc V. Le.DCo-founder at DNNResearch from 2012-12 to 2013-03.Co-founded the neural-network research company with Geoffrey Hinton and Alex Krizhevsky; Google acquired it in 2013.
SUPostdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University from 2012-11 to 2012-12.Postdoctoral researcher in Andrew Ng’s group.