# Ilya Sutskever

id: ent_ilya-sutskever  
wikidata: Q21712134  
kind: person  
timeline: /timelines/ilya-sutskever.md  
page: /record/ilya-sutskever  
same_as: https://asof.is/record/ilya-sutskever (how to cite the id: /identifiers.md)  

Ilya Sutskever is a Canadian-Israeli AI researcher. On the record, Ilya Sutskever is CEO of Safe Superintelligence, since 2025; and a founder of Safe Superintelligence, since 2024, and of OpenAI.

## Key facts

- CEO: Safe Superintelligence (since 2025) · claim: /claim/clm_379C3DCA6044.md
- Founder: OpenAI · claim: /claim/clm_FD95027EF7A8.md
- Founder: Safe Superintelligence (since 2024) · claim: /claim/clm_92501258DB46.md

## Questions

**What roles does Ilya Sutskever hold?** CEO of Safe Superintelligence since 2025, Founder of OpenAI and Founder of Safe Superintelligence since 2024, as the AsOf record states with its sources.

**What is Ilya Sutskever's role at Safe Superintelligence?** CEO since 2025 and Founder since 2024.

**What is Ilya Sutskever's role at OpenAI?** Founder.

## Fact pages

One page per fact: the current value with its sources, then every dated value and what replaced what. Fetch any of them as markdown.

- [Ilya Sutskever CEO roles](/record/ilya-sutskever/ceo_of.md)
- [Ilya Sutskever founder roles](/record/ilya-sutskever/founder_of.md)

## Current state

What the record asserts: claims that held, valid by their sources or primary-sourced at confidence 0.7 or more. Unverified, disputed, retracted and review-marked claims are listed below, labelled, not here.

- [Ilya Sutskever](/record/ilya-sutskever.md) | ceo_of | [Safe Superintelligence](/record/safe-superintelligence.md) | valid 2025-07-03 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_E05FC4196973](/claim/clm_E05FC4196973.md)
  sources: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/ilya-sutskever-will-lead-safe-superintelligence-following-his-ceos-exit/, https://ssi.inc/updates
- [Ilya Sutskever](/record/ilya-sutskever.md) | founder_of | [Safe Superintelligence](/record/safe-superintelligence.md) | valid 2024-06-19 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_6757FB7610BD](/claim/clm_6757FB7610BD.md)
  sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20240620000000id_/https://ssi.inc/, https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/sutskever-strikes-ai-gold-with-billion-dollar-backing-for-superintelligent-ai/
- [Ilya Sutskever](/record/ilya-sutskever.md) | founder_of | [OpenAI](/record/openai.md) | valid undated to present | conf 0.80 | valid | [clm_57CD593940EE](/claim/clm_57CD593940EE.md)
  sources: https://futureoflife.org/recent-news/openai-announced/, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21708200, https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-invests-1-billion-openai-vows-build-ai-technology-platform-unprecedented-scale/

## All claims

One claim per line, newest first. Superseded claims stay visible.

- [Ilya Sutskever](/record/ilya-sutskever.md) | ceo_of | [Safe Superintelligence](/record/safe-superintelligence.md) | valid 2025-07-03 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_E05FC4196973](/claim/clm_E05FC4196973.md)
  sources: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/ilya-sutskever-will-lead-safe-superintelligence-following-his-ceos-exit/, https://ssi.inc/updates
- [Ilya Sutskever](/record/ilya-sutskever.md) | founder_of | [Safe Superintelligence](/record/safe-superintelligence.md) | valid 2024-06-19 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_6757FB7610BD](/claim/clm_6757FB7610BD.md)
  sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20240620000000id_/https://ssi.inc/, https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/sutskever-strikes-ai-gold-with-billion-dollar-backing-for-superintelligent-ai/
- [Ilya Sutskever](/record/ilya-sutskever.md) | founder_of | [OpenAI](/record/openai.md) | valid undated to present | conf 0.80 | valid | [clm_57CD593940EE](/claim/clm_57CD593940EE.md)
  sources: https://futureoflife.org/recent-news/openai-announced/, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21708200, https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-invests-1-billion-openai-vows-build-ai-technology-platform-unprecedented-scale/

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