輝達（Nvidia）同意向 OpenAI 共同創辦人 Ilya Sutskever 領導的神秘人工智慧新創公司 Safe Superintelligence（SSI）投資 50 億美元。這項長期合作夥伴關係將使這家新創公司能夠使用輝達最新的 Vera Rubin 硬體。這筆資金將幫助 SSI 建立所需的運算能力，以擴展其研究突破，並預計在未來 12 個月內將其可用運算能力提高 10 倍。

這筆投資是人工智慧晶片製造商與模型開發商之間一系列循環融資協議的最新一筆。儘管 SSI 的估值高達 320 億美元且擁有頂尖人才，但外界對其正在進行的計畫知之甚少，該公司也尚未發布任何產品。他們正在研究一種新的人工智慧方法，這與 OpenAI 和 Google 等公司開發的大型語言模型（LLM）的基礎方法截然不同。

Ilya Sutskever 是 2022 年 ChatGPT 突破性發布的關鍵人物，在經歷了 OpenAI 董事會政變後，他於 2024 年共同創辦了 SSI。他曾是最早掌握「縮放定律」的工程師之一，但最近指出這種依賴資料和運算能力的方法帶來的回報正在遞減。輝達執行長黃仁勳對這次合作表示興奮，期待看到 SSI 在其最新平台上取得新的根本性突破。

Nvidia has agreed to invest $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a secretive AI start-up led by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. This long-term partnership will allow the start-up to utilize Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin hardware. The funding will help SSI build the necessary computing capacity to scale up its research breakthroughs, expecting to increase its available computing power tenfold over the next 12 months.

This investment is the latest in a series of circular financing deals between AI chipmakers and model developers. Despite SSI's lofty $32 billion valuation and top-tier talent, little is known about its specific projects, and the company has yet to release any products. They are working on a novel approach to AI research that significantly diverges from the foundational methods of large language models developed by companies like OpenAI and Google. (Key numbers: 320)

Ilya Sutskever, a key figure behind the breakthrough launch of ChatGPT in 2022, co-founded SSI in 2024 following a boardroom coup at OpenAI. While he was one of the first engineers to grasp the "scaling law," he recently suggested that the returns from this approach of relying heavily on data and computing power are diminishing. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expressed excitement about the partnership, anticipating new fundamental breakthroughs powered by their latest platform.