Ilya Sutskever
2 milestones · 2012–2015
Explore Ilya Sutskever's contributions to AI across 2 milestones from 2012 to 2015, with the strongest concentration in infrastructure & compute.
Chronology
Research
AlexNet: The ImageNet Moment
AlexNet, a deep convolutional neural network, won the ImageNet competition by a staggering margin — reducing the error rate from 26% to 16%. Trained on two NVIDIA GTX 580 GPUs, it was dramatically deeper and more powerful than previous entries. The AI community was stunned.
Alex KrizhevskyIlya SutskeverUniversity of Toronto
Infrastructure
OpenAI Founded
OpenAI was founded as a non-profit AI research lab with $1 billion in committed funding, aiming to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Co-founded by Sam Altman (Y Combinator president), Elon Musk, and top researchers including Ilya Sutskever from Google Brain.
Sam AltmanElon MuskOpenAI