Super Safe Intelligence Lands NVIDIA Deal, Opus 4.7 Rebuilds Apple Software, and Google AI Overviews Hit 43% of Searches

Super Safe Intelligence (SSI), the two-year-old research lab founded by Ilya Sutskever after he left OpenAI, has secured a multi-billion dollar investment from NVIDIA along with access to their next-generation Vera Rubin GPU platform. The deal will increase SSI's compute power by roughly 10x, enabling them to scale research into AI safety and reasoning. What makes this remarkable is that SSI has not shipped a single product or generated any revenue. They are running entirely on Sutskever's reputation as one of AI's most respected researchers and a founding figure at OpenAI. SSI has now raised $7 billion total at a $32 billion valuation, with backers including NVIDIA, Andreessen Horowitz, Alphabet, Sequoia, and Lightspeed. Sutskever told investors from the start not to expect products for two to four years — a timeline reminiscent of OpenAI's own trajectory, where years of research funding preceded product launches. Vera Rubin is NVIDIA's next-generation GPU architecture, and by getting early access, SSI positions itself as a flagship customer while collaborating with NVIDIA on future compute platforms. SSI also partners with Google Cloud, giving them two of the largest compute suppliers funding their runway while they pursue foundational research instead o