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Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)

Founded in 2024 by Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI's former chief scientist), Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy with a single stated goal: building safe superintelligence, with no near-term product line.

Checked September 27, 2026

Lab site

No lab publishes a real roadmap

So this page keeps three things apart on purpose. What has already shipped is dated. What is coming is listed only where the lab itself has said it in public, with the source named. Everything else sits under “What to watch” and is my own read of their shipping pattern — informed guessing, not news. If a date matters to you, check the lab's own page linked above.

What they are

Safe Superintelligence Inc. was started in 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy. Its own site calls it a "straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence."

It sells nothing and publishes no models. The lab says it is approaching safety and capabilities together, so it has no product cycle to follow.

What they currently ship

Every model in the directory entry, with its free-tier status.

  • No public models— SSI ships no consumer or API products — it is a pure research lab, so there is nothing to sign up for or try.Paid only
  • Note: There is no free tier, no API and no waitlist product — the lab's site is a mission statement, not a storefront.

What you get for free

The honest version, in one paragraph.

There is nothing to use, free or paid. SSI has no app, no API and no waitlist. This page tracks the lab because of who runs it, not because there's anything to try.

Track record

Things that actually happened, oldest first, each with a date.

  1. June 2024SSI is announced with a one-page mission statement on ssi.inc.

Confirmed and announced

Only what the lab has stated in public. Nothing here rests on a rumor.

  • The lab says superintelligence is "our entire product roadmap," meaning no interim products are planned.

    Announced by the lab

What to watch

My own read of where this lab is heading, based on how it has shipped so far. Not announcements — treat these as questions to check, not facts.

  • — Whether SSI publishes any research, model or evaluation at all, since it has shipped nothing in public so far.
  • — Whether the no-product stance holds as funding and staffing grow.