OpenAI Co-founder Ilya Sutskever's new AI startup Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI) has raised $1 billion from NFDG, a16z, Sequoia, DST Global and SV Angel. Ilya launched SSI, which currently has 10 employees, in June this year after leaving OpenAI in May. "We've started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence," SSI says.