AI Startup Funding Share Falls to 53% as Venture Hits $65B
AI startups captured 53% of global venture funding in July, their lowest share since December, even as total investment reached $65 billion in a record month for mega-rounds.
Safe Superintelligence is an AI research lab focused on developing safe superintelligent systems.
Safe Superintelligence is an AI research lab focused on building safe superintelligent systems. The company was founded in 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, and Daniel Levy, and operates with a narrow mission around frontier AI safety, research, and long-term technical development. SSI is positioned as one of the most closely watched private AI labs because of its founding team and unusually focused mandate.
TrueUp lists Safe Superintelligence as a generative AI company with the business focus “AI research lab” and valuation $32.0B in its visible generative AI company ranking.
Research-focused AI systems; no public developer platform announced.
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AI startups captured 53% of global venture funding in July, their lowest share since December, even as total investment reached $65 billion in a record month for mega-rounds.
NVIDIA has formed a long-term partnership with Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence, reportedly investing $5 billion and giving the secretive AI lab access to Vera Rubin systems that will expand its computing capacity tenfold.