Gavin Baker Says Ilya Sutskever's SSI Will Release Its First Model This Month
Atreides Management CIO Gavin Baker said in an interview with Patrick O'Shaughnessy that Safe Superintelligence plans to launch its first model in August 2026 — the clip hit r/singularity at 824 upvotes / 213 comments. SSI was founded June 2024 by Sutskever with Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, raised $5B from investors including Nvidia at a ~$32B valuation, and has shipped nothing publicly on the stated premise of releasing only once it reached superintelligence. A same-day companion thread (261 upvotes) resurfaced Sutskever's November 2025 Dwarkesh interview where he allowed that SSI might pivot away from straight-shotting ASI. This is a single secondhand claim from an investor, not an SSI announcement — treat the date as rumor until SSI says otherwise.
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