Safe Superintelligence (SSI) is an AI startup that recently raised $2 billion, reaching a valuation of $32 billion, with fewer than 100 employees and no public product yet.
This success reflects the shift in venture capital towards betting on small, elite teams with innovative ideas, contrasting the traditional requirements of showing progress in customer attraction or revenue generation.
The trend in today's startups indicates a departure from the past, reminiscent of the dot-com boom but on a larger scale and with major institutional support.
Co-founded by Ilya Sutskever, Safe Superintelligence Inc. is defying traditional startup growth steps by attracting significant funding without a public product or service and having fewer than 50 employees.