The researcher whose name alone priced a fifty-person lab into the tens of billions. His departure and his new venture both read as bets on where superintelligence actually comes from.
- Based
- Palo Alto, CA
- Company
- Safe Superintelligence
- Known for
- Co-founding OpenAI; pioneering deep learning; now building SSI with no product in between.
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Safety
Safety was Anthropic's whole product. On Tuesday, its maker walked out.
A pretraining researcher quit the lab that sells caution, warning that both his old employer and his new one are “gambling with our lives.” The money did not blink.
September 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Power
Every 'safety' press release this quarter, ranked by how much it moved the stock.
The correlation is not zero. The direction is not the one you would hope.
September 9, 2026 · 4 min read