A $30 billion valuation would make Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence one of the most valuable private AI companies.

OPENAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever is raising more than US$1 billion for his startup at a valuation of over US$30 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter – vaulting the nascent venture into the ranks of the world’s most valuable private technology companies.

Safe Superintelligence, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever last year, is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of at least $20 billion,

Safe Superintelligence was seeking to raise money on at least a $20 billion valuation. Safe Superintelligence has previously raised more than $1 billion in funding on a $5 billion valuation in September.