AI firm Protected Superintelligence (SSI) is hiring many dozens of workers in Israel “Globes” has realized. The corporate, which is striving to create protected synthetic intelligence, was cofounded by Ilya Sutskever, the mind behind AI big OpenAI, who grew up in Israel and studied on the Open College earlier than shifting to Canada. SSI has opened places of work in Palo Alto, California and in Tel Aviv’s Midtown workplace tower.
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SSI goals to provide synthetic intelligence with very excessive capabilities that can enable it to independently develop helpful purposes similar to creating medication for treating ailments and new supplies, with very sturdy protections that can forestall it from manipulating people. When presenting the corporate’s imaginative and prescient, Sutzkever pledged that he wouldn’t launch an AI mannequin to the world earlier than making certain it meets all the required security requirements.
Final month “Globes” revealed that SSI had employed an preliminary analysis workforce in Tel Aviv, which incorporates researchers within the fields of pc science and arithmetic, to construct the corporate’s first AI mannequin.
Among the many first workers to be employed in Tel Aviv is Dr. Yair Carmon, a senior lecturer in Tel Aviv College’s College of Pc Science. He’s on unpaid depart in order that he can work at SSI. The seek for SSI Israel’s workers, “Globes” has realized, is being performed in full secrecy. Workers don’t publish that they work for SSI on social media similar to LinkedIn and lots of work at home to reinforce most confidentiality.
SSI’s enlargement in Israel comes amid stories by “Reuters” that Google mother or father firm Alphabet and Nvidia have invested within the AI developer. Alphabet, which earlier this month signed a deal by its cloud computing division to supply entry to its proprietary tensor processing models (TPUs) to SSI, has confirmed the report. However it’s not clear if Alphabet and Nvidia made the funding as a part of the $1 billion financing spherical closed two months in the past by SSI and led by Greenoaks Capital Companions at an estimated firm valuation of $30 billion.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on April 14, 2025.
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