Ilya Sutskever — Net Worth and Career Earnings
Ilya Sutskever has an estimated net worth of over $1 billion. The Russian-born AI researcher co-founded OpenAI and was central to the development of the GPT architecture. He was one of the board members who voted to fire Sam Altman in November 2023. He left OpenAI in 2024 to found Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI), focused exclusively on building safe AI systems.