SSI raised $3 billion in funding, but most compute at larger companies like OpenAI and Anthropic goes to inference and product engineering rather than research, so when adjusted for product costs, SSI's research compute is comparable to frontier labs.

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Ilya Sutskever

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a lot of their compute goes for inference... A lot of the research needs to be dedicated to producing all kinds of product-related features

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Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:07:19 PM

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