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Portrait of Ilya Sutskever

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Ilya Sutskever

b. 1986age 40Living

Co-authored AlexNet in 2012, the result that convinced the field deep learning would work, then co-founded OpenAI and led the research behind the GPT models. Left in 2024 to start Safe Superintelligence. Born in Russia, raised in Jerusalem, and a student of Geoffrey Hinton in Toronto.

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