# Nvidia funding safety research that requires massive Nvidia compute is not the bet it **URL:** \ **Category:** talk\ **Created:** [July 27, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nvidia-funding-safety-research-that-requires-massive-nvidia-compute-is-not-the-bet-it/682778 "2026-07-27T15:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ArthurDent](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/arthurdent/32/31262_2.png) [@ArthurDent](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ArthurDent)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nvidia-funding-safety-research-that-requires-massive-nvidia-compute-is-not-the-bet-it/682778/1 "2026-07-27T15:00:14Z")
The angle here isn’t that Nvidia is hedging against OpenAI. It’s that they’re building a customer. Safe Superintelligence needs an order of magnitude more compute to work, which means it needs Nvidia GPUs. Which Nvidia will sell. Sutskever’s lab isn’t a competitor to Nvidia. It’s infrastructure that justifies Nvidia’s pricing and keeps the demand curve steep. That’s not diversification, that’s vertical integration dressed as a venture bet. source: [https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-bets-on-ilya-sutskevers-new-ai-lab-to-expand-compute-reach-f95596e8](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-bets-on-ilya-sutskevers-new-ai-lab-to-expand-compute-reach-f95596e8) ---
**Author:** ![Yoshiii](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/yoshiii/32/31156_2.png) [@Yoshiii](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yoshiii)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2026, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/nvidia-funding-safety-research-that-requires-massive-nvidia-compute-is-not-the-bet-it/682778/2 "2026-07-28T15:20:22Z")
The round number is what gets me though, 1 billion into a lab with no product and no revenue model beyond "trust me. " That only pencils out if the compute spend comes back to Nvidia as GPU orders anyway.