Ilya Sutskever
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AlexNet co-author, OpenAI's scientific soul, now betting everything on SSI.
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Sutskever co-authored AlexNet under Hinton, drove OpenAI's scaling conviction as chief scientist, joined the board action against Altman and then left to found Safe Superintelligence — no products, one goal. His 2024–25 public remarks ('pre-training as we know it will end'; scaling's low-hanging fruit is gone) frame the field's central strategic debate.
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