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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 6, 2026Published at 1:47 AM EDT · New York
Investor Says Safe Superintelligence Plans Its First Model This Month, and the Company Has Not Confirmed It
Ilya Sutskever has stated that Safe Superintelligence's first product will be the safe superintelligence itself, which makes any ordinary model release a departure from the company's stated plan.
A claim circulating since Tuesday holds that Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the company Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, will release its first model in August. The source is the investor Gavin Baker, speaking in an interview wit…
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