It’s reported that the synthetic intelligence (AI) startup SSI, founded by the previous chief scientist Illiya Suttsukber of Open AI, is discussing investment attraction with $ 30 billion (about 43 trillion won). This can be a figures that jumped from $ 20 billion known for 10 days ago.
Bloomberg quoted a source on the seventeenth (local time) and reported that the SSI, founded in June last yr, has invested greater than $ 1 billion within the second funding round.
The investment is alleged to be led by Enterprise Capital Greenox Capital Partners. Within the previous investment round, five institutions, including Sequoia Capital, Andrioson Horobitz, and DST Global, invested $ 1 billion in $ 5 billion.
The present $ 30 billion corporate value is rising six times in five months, and it’s a results of lower than a yr after it was established.
Particularly, the figure is 1.5 times higher than the $ 20 billion value reported by Reuters on the seventh.
The SSI has no AI models which have yet been released, and it just isn’t known intimately except to develop a secure AI system.
Nevertheless, the rise in ransoms by many investors tells us that there’s a whole lot of expectations for the founding father of Sushu Kever. He led the event of ‘Cuestar’, the idea of the open AI reasoning model.
If the financing is successful, the SSI is predicted to be one among the very best valuations of unlisted tech firms.
By Park Chan, reporter cpark@aitimes.com
