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Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder, OpenAI (former) — founder of Safe Superintelligence

Co-author AlexNet (2012); PhD at Toronto under Geoffrey Hinton; Google Brain

About Ilya

Ilya Sutskever co-founded OpenAI and served as Chief Scientist through the GPT-4 era. A foundational figure in deep learning — co-author of AlexNet (2012, the paper that kicked off the modern era) and Seq2Seq. Departed OpenAI in 2024 after the board governance saga and founded Safe Superintelligence Inc.