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Safe Superintelligence Lands $5B from Nvidia

An AI safety lab secures a massive hardware-linked war chest, while a Serbian car insurtech achieves unicorn status.

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Nvidia is paying a premium for early access to safety research — buying into a $32B safety lab to protect its dominant hardware position from future regulatory backlash.

BackgroundSafe Superintelligence was co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to focus exclusively on safe, long-term AI development. The startup has focused on pure research rather than commercial software products, requiring deep capital reserves to fund compute.

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  1. The deal provides Safe Superintelligence with prioritized access to Nvidia's upcoming Vera Rubin graphics processing unit architecture, ensuring the startup remains at the leading edge of training hardware.
  2. Google co-invested in the round and will continue providing tensor processing unit cloud infrastructure, broadening the startup's hardware options beyond a single chipmaker's ecosystem.
  3. In exchange for the massive capital injection, Nvidia reportedly received rare visibility into the startup's closely guarded internal alignment research, which could help shape its own enterprise safety products.
SourcesPeoples Gazette: Nvidia invests $5 billion in Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence to scale next-gen AI computing (opens in new tab)Trending Topics: Nvidia Pours Billions Into Safe Superintelligence – a Startup With No Product and No Revenue (opens in new tab)

Startup

Ominimo has proven that high-precision pricing software can scale rapidly without heavy balance sheets — turning Eastern Europe into a viable launchpad for global insurtech.

BackgroundOminimo operates as a managing general agent, using highly segmented machine learning models to price motor insurance without underwriting the risk directly. It has expanded rapidly across Central Europe since its launch in 2024.

Points
  1. The €20.1 million Series B round officially establishes Ominimo as Serbia's first technology unicorn, highlighting the growing sophistication of Balkan tech hubs.
  2. The startup partners with established carriers like Signal Iduna and Zurich Insurance Group to underwrite its policies, keeping its own balance sheet light.
  3. Annualized gross premium run-rate has reached €306.8 million, with a formal United States launch scheduled for 2027 to test its model in a highly competitive market.
SourcesTNW: Ominimo hits €1.4bn valuation two years after launch (opens in new tab)Vestbee: Ominimo reaches unicorn status after raising Series B at $1.6B valuation (opens in new tab)

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