Ilya Sutskever

<p>Ilya Sutskever <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society/cWs8TdC5">FRS</a> (born 8 December 1986) is an <a href="/facts/Israelis/Xx9g0vP1">Israeli</a>-<a href="/facts/Canadians/9y5ceYgk">Canadian</a> <a href="/facts/Computer_scientist/DavggjGL">computer scientist</a> who specializes in <a href="/facts/Machine_learning/e0w0XJTu">machine learning</a>. Sutskever has made several major contributions to the field of <a href="/facts/Deep_learning/JLuwD3ea">deep learning</a>. With <a href="/facts/Alex_Krizhevsky/SjGe6B3f">Alex Krizhevsky</a> and <a href="/facts/Geoffrey_Hinton/HJU6lC2H">Geoffrey Hinton</a>, he co-invented <a href="/facts/AlexNet/FUFE1Xov">AlexNet</a>, a <a href="/facts/Convolutional_neural_network/kHEdnmGU">convolutional neural network</a>.
</p><p>Sutskever co-founded and was a former chief scientist at <a href="/facts/OpenAI/V7WVK1t4">OpenAI</a>. In 2023, he was one of the members of OpenAI's board that <a href="/facts/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_OpenAI/Sm6XBqYq">ousted</a> <a href="/facts/Sam_Altman/jhstWT0n">Sam Altman</a> from his position as <a href="/facts/Chief_executive_officer/mg4A8y5M">CEO</a>; Altman returned a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board. In June 2024, Sutskever co-founded the company <a href="/facts/Safe_Superintelligence/sJYCLsCG">Safe Superintelligence</a> with <a href="/facts/Daniel_Gross_(entrepreneur)/fDoX0HyE">Daniel Gross</a> and Daniel Levy.
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Ilya Sutskever