Ilia Sutskyver is the co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI.

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, stated in November 2025 that the era of easy gains from scaling is over, and the industry is now in an age of research.

Ilya Sutskever, a top recruit who turned down a $6 million annual offer from Google to join OpenAI, began to feel by 2020-2023 that Sam Altman should not have control over the technology.

Ilia Sutskever and Greg Brockman initially chose Elon Musk to be the CEO of OpenAI's for-profit entity.

Ilia Sutskever never returned to OpenAI after Sam Altman's reinstallation, and Mira Murati left shortly thereafter.

In the fall of 2003, Ilia Sutskyver, OpenAI's chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow members of the organization's board of directors.