Ilya Sutskever

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BS (2005), MS (2007), PhD (2013) in CS from University of Toronto, supervised by Geoffrey Hinton. Co-built AlexNet (2012) with Hinton and Krizhevsky, igniting the modern deep learning revolution. Google Brain (2013); created sequence-to-sequence learning. Co-founded OpenAI (2015), served as Chief Scientist. Founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) in June 2024.

Affiliations

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    OpenAI — Co-founder & Former Chief Scientist (departed May 2024; now CEO of SSI)
    Formerly: Google Brain; PhD University of Toronto (Geoffrey Hinton)