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• 💰 OpenAI co-founder's $30B bet on superintelligence.

• 🧠 Australian bio-computer uses neurons instead of chips

• 🤖 NYU app lets you train tomorrow's robot overlords.

• 🧠 Microsoft builds OpenAI competitors

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

Safe Superintelligence Inc.

🤖 Ex-OpenAI Scientist’s Bold ASI Bet

A radical new approach to AI is taking shape—one that doesn’t follow the conventional wisdom of scaling models. And the mastermind behind it? Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.

Despite having no product, no revenue, and just 20 employees, Sutskever’s new venture, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), is reportedly raising $2B at a staggering $30B valuation.

The Details:

• Sutskever has told investors he’s identified a completely different path to AI—describing it as “a different mountain to climb.”

• Unlike other AI labs, SSI isn’t planning any commercial releases until it reaches superintelligence.

• The company operates leanly with just 20 employees, yet investors are lining up.

• Sutskever left OpenAI after the chaotic November 2023 ousting of Sam Altman, later admitting he regretted his role in the decision.

Why It Matters:

SSI’s contrarian approach challenges the dominant AI strategy of continuous model scaling. If Sutskever is right, the next leap in AI won’t come from bigger models—but from rethinking AI’s very foundations.

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OpenAI

🔬 OpenAI Fuels AI Research with $50M NextGenAI

AI is reshaping education — and OpenAI just put $50 million behind it.

This week, OpenAI launched NextGenAI, a major academic initiative funding AI research and education across 15 top institutions, including Harvard, MIT, and Oxford.

What’s in it?

• Research grants, compute resources, and API access to power AI-driven innovation.

• Institutions tackling big challenges, from faster rare disease diagnosis to digitizing historical texts.

• Follows OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu, a cost-effective GPT-4o version for schools, launched last May.

• Competitor Perplexity is also moving in, planning free Pro subscriptions for students.

Why does it matter?
AI is set to redefine scientific research and education. By arming top universities with cutting-edge AI tools, OpenAI is accelerating breakthroughs in medicine, history, and beyond. 🚀

Trending Today

• Microsoft has unveiled the first quantum processing unit Majorana 1, designed to scale a million qubits on a single chip. The Majorana 1 uses a new material that combines indium arsenide and aluminum, cooled to near absolute zero then turned with magnetic fields producing great superconducting nanowires with Majorana zero modes ( MZM) at the wires ends.

• Microsoft is reportedly developing MAI, a new family of AI models that rivals current industry leaders — alongside the build-out of its own in-house reasoning models to reduce reliance on OpenAI for its Copilot suite.

• Cortical Labs, an Australian startup launched the world’s first commercial bio-computer, CL1, powered by living human brain cells. The $35,000 system uses lab-grown neurons wired onto a chip, allowing it to learn and adapt faster than traditional silicon-based AI, while consuming far less energy. The tech blurs the line between biology and computing, and could potentially revolutionize AI, robotics, and computing.

• NYU researchers launched a groundbreaking iOS app AnySense, designed to gather visual training data for generalizable robotics models, making robot learning much more efficient. The app pairs with “The Stick,” a 3D-printed gripper, to capture high-quality training data. It even integrates with AnySkin, a touch-sensitive pad that provides feedback for better robotic grip — a potential game-changer for AI-powered robotics.

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