Nvidia partners with Safe Superintelligence in $5 B deal

Nvidia announced a major strategic partnership with Safe Superintelligence (SSI) on Monday, July 27, 2026, making a substantial investment in the artificial intelligence research lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. While the exact figure was not disclosed by the companies, reports valued the commitment at approximately $5 billion. The alliance grants SSI access to Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin GPU platform, a move expected to increase the lab's computational power by an order of magnitude.

The partnership extends beyond a simple financial investment, involving deep technical collaboration on Nvidia's current and future computing architectures. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that the company proceeded only after gaining rare access to SSI's closely guarded proprietary research, indicating the deal's strategic significance. Huang praised Sutskever's foundational contributions to modern AI, beginning with the AlexNet breakthrough.

In response, Sutskever framed the agreement as a critical step for scaling SSI's work, stating the lab has research worthy of scaling up and that access to a big NVIDIA computer will enable that effort. He expressed specific...