Hot: $1B+ AI rounds

On Wednesday, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup Safe SuperIntelligence (SSI) announced it had raised $1B. Ilya left OpenAI in May 2024. The deal is the 9th $1B+ AI equity round this year following: 1. xAI — $6B Series B (May 2024) 2. Anthropic — $2.75B Series D (March 2024) 3. G42 — $1.5B corporate minority (April 2024) 4. Anduril — $1.5B Series F (August 2024) 5. CoreWeave — $1.1B Series C (May 2024) 6. Wayve — $1.05B Series C (May 2024) 7. Moonshot AI — $1B Series B (February 2024) 8. Scale — $1B Series B (May 2024) (CB Insights)