Exclusively: Elijah Sutskv, founder and brain behind Ai Giant Openai, assigned his first team of Israeli researchers in computer science for new offices from Safe Superintelligence (SSI) that was created in Tel Aviv.
The promising new AI company, managed by Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, remains in hiding and ending from the media. To date, SSI made public data that make it impossible to understand exactly. I presented a very general vision to create “safe artificial intelligence”, without explanation, as his founding team gave. In addition to Sutzkever, the founders also include the Israeli investor and former chains Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, an American who led the improvement team in Openai. As usual in companies in hiding, SSI employees themselves do not know as social media employees.
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“Globes” learned that SSI has appointed a preliminary research team in Tel Aviv, which includes researchers in the fields of computer science and mathematics, to build the company's artificial intelligence model.
Among the first employees who have been appointed in Tel Aviv, Dr. Yair Carmon, the first lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University since 2020. Carmon has three degrees in physics including a doctorate from Stanford University, which was received before returning to Israel to teach. Carmon's research focuses on machine learning, improvement and statistics and describes himself on his personal page at Tel Aviv University as a person who focuses on “making automated learning and improvement algorithms more stable and reliable.” It is on an unpaid vacation so that he can work in SSI. Carmon is one of the first employees of the Israeli team, and it helps the company find additional researchers.
The search for SSI ISRAEL, “Globes”, is made orally among friends and without help from employment experts, human resources consultants or employment companies. To date, a number of Google Research researchers, as well as Google's programmers, have been set. Another team members is Yaron BRODSKY, a former Google program developer who specializes in Creative AI in the field of photo editing.
Among the other researchers who were appointed: Shahar Babini, a two -year -old technology graduate in Waze and then to Blockchain Starkware, and may have joined SSI six months ago; Nitzan Tor, a graduate of The Technion Mathematics, who won three times the first students of students for mathematics and computer engineer who previously worked in the Algo-Training Final. As well as it is known, SSI is currently hung and not currently striving to get more employees.
“The company's structure is very flat and non -hierarchy. There are no team leaders, and everyone is working on a joint project, without a real separation between Tel Aviv and Pallo Alto,” says the company's executive official who knows the company. SSI, an abbreviation for safe external cancellation (safe, general artificial intelligence), is supposed to be accomplished exactly this task. According to Sutskever, it was designed to produce very high capacity Amnesty International, which will allow them to develop human applications independently such as drugs, new materials for production or technology to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, Sutzkever has always been concerned about the dark and dangerous side of artificial intelligence that could give it the ability to harm humanity. When submitting the company's vision, Sutskever pledges that it will not launch a model before ensuring that all the necessary safety standards are met.
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Sutskever is a former Israeli who moved to Canada with his teenage parents, where he completed mathematics and doctorate in computer science. In 2016, he founded Openai after receiving a call from CEO SAM Altman. Last year, he left after a conflict with Altman and the shareholders of the company's commercial component, which was defined from the beginning as a non -profit organization.
SSI established in June 2024, and began to establish an office in Israel – which, as it was revealed in Globes last month, will be present in the Midtown Tower in Tel Aviv. The company completes large financing rounds every few months, with the last reporting last week. According to these reports, SSI is in the process of raising a billion dollars with an assessment of $ 30 billion, which is six times the value offered in donations last September. This evaluation, given that the company is many years away from the launch of a product and certainly from profitability, is another indication of the high assessments in which prominent capital intelligence companies raise capital. Openai also seeks to raise capital with a rating of $ 157 billion, while Elon Musk is in talks to raise $ 10 billion with a rating of $ 75 billion.
It was published by Globes, Israel Business News – En.globes.co.il – on March 2, 2025.
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