SSI Co-founder Ilya Sutskever Becomes CEO, Addresses Acquisition talks

July 3, 2025

Safe Superintelligence, the secretive AI lab co-founded by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, confirmed the departure of co-founder and venture capital investor Daniel Gross. Sutskever is now CEO and will continue to oversee the company’s technical team.

In a post on X, Sutskever appeared to address previous reporting that Meta had previously made a bid to acquire