While announcing his departure from OpenAI in March 2024, Ilya Sutskever had asserted that he was moving on to work on a "personally meaningful" project. Well, that project has just managed to raise some serious funding, potentially hinting at Sutskever's ultimate ambitions of taking on OpenAI, which remains under the firm tutelage of Sam Altman. While working as the chief scientist at OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever had backed a short-lived coup against the non-profit's CEO, Sam Altman, who was summarily dismissed by the board in late 2023 for his increasingly mercantile bent and his proclivity for pushing AI-related advancements without proper […]
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