Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest $5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about $3B in funding and was valued at $32B last year (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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Nvidia’s planned $5B investment in SSI deepens its stake in frontier AI labs and values Sutskever’s startup as a major contender.

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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-27/nvidia-makes-substantial-investment-in-sutskever-s-ai-startup"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260727/i24.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260727/p24#a260727p24" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Shirin Ghaffary / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-27/nvidia-makes-substantial-investment-in-sutskever-s-ai-startup">Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest $5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about $3B in funding and was valued at $32B last year</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Nvidia Corp. has committed to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever's artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. &hellip; </p>