OpenAI
Google Brain
University of Toronto
Daniel LevyCo-founder & President · Safe Superintelligence Inc.Researcher↗Both at Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Ilya Sutskever
Safe Superintelligence Inc.Co-founder and CEO
Sutskever co-created AlexNet, a breakthrough in image recognition, and sequence-to-sequence learning for translating sentences. As OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist, he helped shape the GPT models and training larger models that led to ChatGPT. In 2024 he left to co-found Safe Superintelligence, aiming to build AI smarter than humans safely.[1]
Career & education
Current roleSafe Superintelligence Inc.2024-presentCo-founder and CEO
Safe Superintelligence Inc.2024-presentPreviously
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations857,363As of Oct 1, '26
citations+12,215Since last snapshot, Sep 1, '26
Selected contributions
GPT-4 Technical Report
With OpenAI, Joshua Achiam, Steven Adler, Sandhini Agarwal, Lama Ahmad, Ilge Akkaya, Florencia Leoni Aleman and others ·Describes GPT-4, a model that accepts text and images and produces text. Reports its performance on academic and professional tests, explains how training behavior was predicted from smaller models, and discusses limitations and safety evaluations.
Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
With Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy, Aditya Ramesh, Gabriel Goh, Sandhini Agarwal, Girish Sastry and others ·Introduced CLIP, learning connections between images and text from internet captions, allowing computers to recognize visual categories described in words without training specifically for them.
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
With Tom Brown, Ben Mann, Nick Ryder, Melanie Subbiah, Jared Kaplan, Prafulla Dhariwal, Arvind Neelakantan and others ·Introduced GPT-3, showing that a large language model could perform varied tasks from written prompts and a few examples, without separate training for each task.
References
- Safe Superintelligence launchtechcrunch.com
June 2024 founding after leaving OpenAI and the company’s safety-focused mission.
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