Ilya says SSI has reached the stage where 'research is worth scaling up.' NVIDIA is now investing and supporting the Vera Rubin system, boosting computing power by 10x over the next 12 months. This guy helped lay the foundation for AlexNet and GPT, then left after the power struggles at OpenAI. He’s been quiet for almost two years without releasing any products, and now he’s finally saying it’s time to expand. The official amount hasn’t been disclosed; Reuters reports the investment is around $5 billion. What’s truly worth watching isn’t the valuation, but the fact that he’s finally moving from behind-closed-doors research to large-scale computing. https://(x.com)/ilyasut/status/2081732293161582930