Ilya Sutskever: 2026 predictions

Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research - YouTube

discuss SSI’s strategy, the problems with pre-training, how to improve the generalization of AI models, and how to ensure AGI goes well.

Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

00:00:00 – Explaining model jaggedness 00:09:39 - Emotions and value functions 00:18:49 – What are we scaling? 00:25:13 – Why humans generalize better than models 00:35:45 – Straight-shotting superintelligence 00:46:47 – SSI’s model will learn from deployment 00:55:07 – Alignment 01:18:13 – “We are squarely an age of research company” 01:29:23 -- Self-play and multi-agent 01:32:42 – Research taste

Ilya Sutskever, U of T honorary degree recipient, June 6, 2025 - YouTube

Ilya Sutskever - Wikipedia

Ilya Sutskever FRS (Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; born 1986) is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning.[6] He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning.[7][8][9] With Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, he co-invented AlexNet, a convolutional neural network.[10] 

Sutskever co-founded and was chief scientist at OpenAI.