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Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder, OpenAI

Known asComputer scientist (born 1986)
RolesCo-founder, OpenAI
Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence (SSI)
EducationStanford University, University of Toronto, Open University of Israel
RecognitionFellow of the Royal Society
LinksWikipedia · openai.com · ssi.inc

About Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever is a co-founder of OpenAI and a co-founder of Safe Superintelligence (SSI).

OpenAI: Maker of the GPT models and ChatGPT; its charter states the mission of ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity.

Across OpenAI and Safe Superintelligence (SSI), Ilya has helped build more than one of the companies AGIX tracks.

Ilya studied at Stanford University, University of Toronto and Open University of Israel.

Honours for Ilya's work include: Fellow of the Royal Society.

Today OpenAI ranks #2 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 73 research roles open, 375 papers in the last year, 2 public models released in the last year and 12 investment vehicles named after it filed with the SEC in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Ilya is part of that story.

Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Ilya, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.

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