Ilya Sutskever
AlexNet coauthor and DNNresearch co-founder from Hinton’s Toronto research group.
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AlexNet coauthor and DNNresearch co-founder from Hinton’s Toronto research group.
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Co-founded the Toronto neural-network company
- Google acquires the Toronto founders’ neural-networks company (2013) ↗University of Toronto
Founding research director
Joined Google following the DNNresearch acquisition
- Google acquires the Toronto founders’ neural-networks company (2013) ↗University of Toronto
Named Hinton as his doctoral advisor in the 2013 PhD thesis
- Ilya Sutskever: 2013 PhD thesis and acknowledgement of advisor Geoffrey Hinton ↗Ilya Sutskever / University of Toronto
Founded
- Wikidata: OpenAI ↗Wikidata · P112 · Statement Q21708200$eb65c1a1-40d6-8351-8d3f-1edc28e360f41 reference record retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: OpenAI ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
- Wikidata: Ilya Sutskever ↗Wikidata · P108 · Statement Q21712134$afad0f68-43f0-7663-01e0-2ed28ac02b612 reference records retained in the source statement
- Wikidata: Ilya Sutskever ↗Wikidata
Chief executive of
- Wikidata: Safe Superintelligence Inc. ↗Wikidata · P169 · Statement Q130302670$7b30bcf1-4661-8325-9b8d-acc09d45a285No external reference recorded in this Wikidata statement
- Wikidata: Safe Superintelligence Inc. ↗Wikidata
Educated at
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- Wikidata: Ilya Sutskever ↗Wikidata
Founded
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- Wikidata: Safe Superintelligence Inc. ↗Wikidata
Educated at
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Educated at
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- Wikidata: Ilya Sutskever ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
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- Wikidata: Ilya Sutskever ↗Wikidata
Works or worked for
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- Wikidata: Ilya Sutskever ↗Wikidata
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- Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid ↗www.theguardian.com · 2024-08-03
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- Google acquires neural network startup that may help it hone speech recognition ↗www.engadget.com · 2013-03-13
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- How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really? ↗dot.la · 2023-03-13
- How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over ↗medium.com · 2015-12-11
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- A neural network to auto-complete your thoughts ↗transformer.huggingface.co · 2019-09-17
- Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately ↗www.thealgorithmicbridge.com · 2025-07-05
- Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI, according to new testimony ↗www.theverge.com · 2025-11-08
- The GPT era is already ending ↗www.theatlantic.com · 2024-12-08
- The Transformer Blueprint ↗deeprevision.github.io · 2023-07-29
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- An Engine of Improvement for the Social Processes of Science ↗scienceplusplus.org · 2022-10-18
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- Visualizing Representations: Deep Learning and Human Beings ↗colah.github.io · 2015-01-16
- Deep learning ↗neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com · 2015-07-26
- A Neural Network for Machine Translation, at Production Scale ↗research.googleblog.com · 2016-09-28
- How a Toronto professor’s research revolutionized artificial intelligence ↗www.thestar.com · 2015-04-17
- Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser ↗github.com · 2024-04-11
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- 100 NLP Papers ↗github.com · 2020-09-04
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- An Engine of Improvement for the Social Processes of Science ↗scienceplusplus.org · 2022-10-18
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- The Making of Dario Amodei ↗www.bigtechnology.com · 2025-07-29
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- The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise ↗www.understandingai.org · 2024-11-06
- How a Toronto professor’s research revolutionized artificial intelligence ↗www.thestar.com · 2015-04-17
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- "Superintelligence" 10 years later ↗www.humanityredefined.com · 2024-07-04
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- Deep learning ↗neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com · 2015-07-26
- How a Toronto professor’s research revolutionized artificial intelligence ↗www.thestar.com · 2015-04-17
- The Making of Dario Amodei ↗www.bigtechnology.com · 2025-07-29
- IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off ↗www.businessinsider.com · 2025-12-02
- "Superintelligence" 10 years later ↗www.humanityredefined.com · 2024-07-04
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- An Engine of Improvement for the Social Processes of Science ↗scienceplusplus.org · 2022-10-18
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- Public Policy Implications of AI ↗medium.com · 2016-12-09
- Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser ↗github.com · 2024-04-11
- The Making of Dario Amodei ↗www.bigtechnology.com · 2025-07-29
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- An Engine of Improvement for the Social Processes of Science ↗scienceplusplus.org · 2022-10-18
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- An Engine of Improvement for the Social Processes of Science ↗scienceplusplus.org · 2022-10-18
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- Sam Altman's Inconsistent Candor Is Showing ↗gizmodo.com · 2024-05-22
- Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately ↗www.thealgorithmicbridge.com · 2025-07-05
- Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024) ↗foundationcapital.com · 2025-01-28
- Inside OpenAI ↗www.wired.com · 2016-04-27
- Geoffrey Hinton says he's proud Ilya Sutskever 'fired Sam Altman' ↗techcrunch.com · 2024-10-09
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- Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with the Real World ↗www.quantamagazine.org · 2018-02-21
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- Make Fun of Them ↗www.wheresyoured.at · 2025-06-30
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- How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers from Taking Over ↗medium.com · 2015-12-11
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- Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI, according to new testimony ↗www.theverge.com · 2025-11-08
- OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired ↗www.businessinsider.com · 2023-11-20
- OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic ↗www.cnbc.com · 2024-08-06
- Sam Altman was raising a VC fund when OpenAI fired him ↗www.semafor.com · 2023-11-18
- Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO ↗www.theverge.com · 2023-11-20
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- On the stand, Elon Musk can't escape his own tweets ↗techcrunch.com · 2026-04-30
- OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others ↗techcrunch.com · 2024-11-16
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- Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid ↗www.theguardian.com · 2024-08-03
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- "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded ↗www.vox.com · 2024-05-17
- OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic ↗www.cnbc.com · 2024-08-06
- Top OpenAI Catastrophic Risk Official Steps Down Abruptly ↗garrisonlovely.substack.com · 2025-04-17
- OpenAI's Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded ↗www.wired.com · 2024-05-17
- OpenAI ↗scottaaronson.blog · 2022-06-18
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- How a Toronto professor’s research revolutionized artificial intelligence ↗www.thestar.com · 2015-04-17
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- "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded ↗www.vox.com · 2024-05-17
- OpenAI's Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded ↗www.wired.com · 2024-05-17
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- Deep learning ↗neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com · 2015-07-26
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- Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything ↗ai.googleblog.com · 2020-01-28
- Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser ↗github.com · 2024-04-11
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- Sam Altman's Inconsistent Candor Is Showing ↗gizmodo.com · 2024-05-22
- Does Sam Altman know what he’s creating? ↗www.theatlantic.com · 2023-07-24
- Sam Altman Is Full of Shit ↗www.wheresyoured.at · 2024-05-21
- Make Fun of Them ↗www.wheresyoured.at · 2025-06-30
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- The Making of Dario Amodei ↗www.bigtechnology.com · 2025-07-29
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WIKIDATA-CONFIRMED IDENTITY Wikipedia: Ilya Sutskever ↗
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- hn · 2023-11-20OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns ↗
- hn · 2024-05-17OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk? ↗
- hn · 2023-11-18OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO ↗
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