Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc.; co-author of the CLIP, Whisper and GPT-3 papers at OpenAI
- Co-founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.12
Ilya Sutskever is the co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a lab whose stated goal and only product is a safe superintelligence. A July 2026 NVIDIA press release describing SSI credits Sutskever's work as contributing to AlexNet, AlphaGo, sequence-to-sequence learning and the GPT models, and as driving the research that led to reasoning models such as OpenAI o1, where the o1 System Card lists Sutskever among the foundational contributors. With an OpenAI affiliation, Sutskever co-authored the papers introducing GPT-3, CLIP, Codex with the HumanEval benchmark, and the Whisper speech recognition models.123456810
Work
WhisperOpen weights
Last-listed author of "Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision" (2022), which trains speech recognition models on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio and releases the models and inference code; the repository is under the MIT license.1011
CLIPOpen weights
Last-listed author of "Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision" (2021), which trains image representations by predicting which caption goes with which image and releases code and pre-trained weights; the repository is under the MIT license.67
HumanEvalOpen data
Co-author of "Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code" (2021), the Codex paper that introduced and released the HumanEval evaluation set; the repository's citation lists the full author list.89
OpenAI o1 reasoning research (external site: arxiv.org)Proprietary product
Listed among the foundational contributors to reasoning research in the authorship section of the OpenAI o1 System Card (2024).4
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