# Safe Superintelligence Inc. is founded (2024): SI History

> Ilya Sutskever co-founds Safe Superintelligence Inc. with a single goal: a safe super intelligence. Explained in plain English, with sources.

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# Safe Superintelligence Inc. is founded (2024)

Ilya Sutskever co-founds Safe Superintelligence Inc. with a single goal: a safe super intelligence.

Date
:   Jun 2024

Type
:   Milestone

Status
:   Happened

Era
:   2024

## What happened

Ilya Sutskever co-founds Safe Superintelligence Inc. with a single goal: a safe super intelligence.

## Why it matters

Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI, said the company would pursue safe super intelligence as its only product, treating safety and capabilities as technical problems to solve together.

## Source

1. [SSI](https://ssi.inc)

## On the timeline

This event is one of 20 milestones on the [RSI timeline](https://enterrsi.si/timeline/), from 1950 to SI building SI.

The event

Date
:   June 19, 2024

Type
:   Timeline milestone

Related terms

[Super Intelligence (SI) **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/super-intelligence/)[Artificial superintelligence (ASI) **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/artificial-superintelligence/)

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