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WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Scientist Who Left OpenAI and Started a $30 Billion Firm

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Ilya Sutskever, former chief scientist at OpenAI, founded a new startup called Safe Superintelligence that’s already worth $30 billion. But what are investors backing beyond Sutskever’s reputation? WSJ reporter Berber Jin shares what we know so far about the secretive startup. Plus, AI coding tools can automate large portions of code development. How could this affect human coders? Charlotte Gartenberg hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, March 6th. I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.7

Artificial intelligence tools are being used by companies across industries. One sector that's seeing big changes, coding.

0:47.3

WSJ reporter Isabel Bousquet tells us how generative AI is transforming coding development jobs and why it could be paving the way for

0:55.3

leaner teams.

0:57.1

Then, Ilya Sutskiver, former chief scientist at OpenA.I.

1:00.5

is one of the most revered AI researchers in the industry.

1:04.1

His new startup is already worth $30 billion.

1:07.3

But what does his secretive company Safe Super Intelligence do?

1:14.8

Our reporter Berbergin shares what we know about the startup so far.

1:24.2

But first, AI coding tools can automate large portions of code development.

1:26.7

But will this tech replace human workers?

1:28.8

For that answer, we're talking to our reporter, Isabel Busquette, who covers enterprise tech. All right, Isabel, I know there's been

1:34.3

some panic over AI taking over jobs, but that's not quite what's happening here. AI can't

1:40.0

just write the entire code for you, can it? That's right. You probably wouldn't want to leave that

1:45.2

job up to AI, at least quite yet. But what we're finding are these tools are actually doing a

1:50.5

pretty good job of being assistants and helping coders and developers essentially get a lot more

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