“Sutskever’s departure from OpenAI followed a rough period at the company that reportedly included disenchantment that OpenAI management did not devote proper resources to his « superalignment » research team and then Sutskever’s involvement in the brief ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last November. After leaving OpenAI in May, Sutskever said his new company would « pursue safe superintelligence in a straight shot, with one focus, one goal, and one product. »Superintelligence, as we’ve noted previously, is a nebulous term for a hypothetical technology that would far surpass human intelligence. There is no guarantee that Sutskever will succeed in his mission (and skeptics abound), but the star power he gained from his academic bona fides and being a key cofounder of OpenAI has made rapid fundraising for his new company relatively easy.”
Source : Sutskever strikes AI gold with billion-dollar backing for superintelligent AI | Ars Technica