Ilya Sutskever (AI Research / Deep Learning) at OpenAI / SSI — San Francisco, United States

Ilya Sutskever co-founded OpenAI and served as its Chief Scientist, making foundational contributions to deep learning including co-creating AlexNet with Geoffrey Hinton — the breakthrough that triggered the modern AI era. He led OpenAI's technical breakthroughs through GPT-4 and beyond. After the November 2023 board crisis, Sutskever departed OpenAI in 2024 to found Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), focused exclusively on AI safety research. Considered one of the greatest deep learning researchers alive.