Sutskever Ilya

Sutskever Ilya

Biography

Ilya Sutskever was born in 1984 in Nizhny Novgorod.

1991-2023

In 1991, Ilya Sutskever emigrated with his family to Israel, and then moved to Canada. In 2013, Sutskever became one of the founders of DNNresearch, which specialized in the development of deep neural networks. Subsequently, this company was bought by Google, and a native of Russia continued to work at Google Brain. In 2015, Ilya Sutskever became the co-founder of OpenAI along with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Peter Thiel.

In November 2023, Sutskever became one of four members of the OpenAI board of directors who proposed that Altman be fired. Then the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, citing its sources, wrote that it was Sutskever who initiated the dismissal of Altman, who moved to Microsoft.

2024: Leaving OpenAI

In mid-May 2024, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announced his departure from the company, in which at the time of his dismissal he held the position of chief scientific consultant (chief scientist).

Almost a decade later, I decided to leave OpenAI, "wrote Sutskever on social network X (formerly Twitter). - The trajectory of the company's development was simply magical, and I am sure that OpenAI will be able to create generative artificial intelligence that will be both safe and useful.

The head of OpenAI Sam Altman, commenting on the departure of Ilya Sutskever, called this event "very sad" and added the following:

Ilya is one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light in our area and a dear friend. His brilliant ability and foresight are well known; his warmth and compassion are less well known, but just as important. Without him, OpenAI wouldn't be what it is.

According to Altman, the place of Sutskever will be taken by the director of OpenAI for scientific research of the company Jakub Pachotsky.^[1]

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