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Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?

A user on Hacker News asks whether Ilya Sutskever has made any public appearances, talks, interviews, or published papers in the past year, noting his recent absence from the public eye.

Background

- Ilya Sutskever is a pioneering AI researcher, co-founder and former Chief Scientist of OpenAI. He was instrumental in creating GPT-1, GPT-2, GPT-3, and DALL-E, and was the lead architect of the original "scaling hypothesis" that drove the modern generative AI boom. - In November 2023, Sutskever was one of the board members who voted to fire Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI, sparking a major company crisis. Altman was reinstated days later, and Sutskever's role on the board ended. He publicly regretted his involvement. - In May 2024, he left OpenAI entirely to found Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), a startup focused solely on building safe superhuman AI, with no other product distractions. - Since mid-2024, Sutskever has been notably quiet: no public talks, papers, or interviews — an unusual silence for someone of his prominence. This HN post is asking the community why that might be and whether anyone has seen recent output from him.

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Ask HN: Has Ilya Sutskever spoken publicly lately?

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