Ex-OpenAI Chief Scientist’s AI Startup Becomes a Unicorn

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• Use Gemini in Google Sheets for Smart Tables & Formulas

• Ex-OpenAI Chief Scientist’s AI Startup Becomes a Unicorn

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📊 How to Use Gemini in Google Sheets for Smart Tables & Formulas

Gemini is now built right into Google Sheets—making data work faster, easier, and way smarter. Here’s how to get started:

🔧 Step-by-Step Instructions

1️⃣ Open a new or existing spreadsheet in Google Sheets

2️⃣ Click the Gemini icon (✨) in the top toolbar

3️⃣ Scroll down to the prompt box

4️⃣ Type your request

Sample Prompt:
“Create a content calendar for 2 weeks.”

5️⃣ Click ‘Generate’
Gemini will draft a table layout.
👉 Hit ‘Insert’ to add it directly into your sheet.

📐 Bonus: Use Gemini for Formulas

Want a formula fast?
📥 Type: “Give me a formula to extract [X] from [column name].”
Gemini will return the formula + explain how it works.
✅ Click ‘Insert Formula’ to add it.

💬 You can ask follow-up questions in the Gemini side panel to refine your tables, troubleshoot formulas, or create new logic on the fly.

Save time. Avoid errors. Get spreadsheet-smart with Gemini.

Ex-OpenAI Chief Scientist’s AI Startup Becomes a Unicorn

Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), founded by Ilya Sutskever (former OpenAI chief scientist), has raised 2billion at a32 billion valuation, making it one of the highest-valued AI startups ever—despite having no public product yet.

💡 Why it matters:

• Led by Greenoaks ($500M), with Lightspeed, a16z, Alphabet, and Nvidia also investing.

• Valuation surged 6x since Sept. 2024—signaling massive investor confidence in Sutskever’s vision.

• Focus: “Superintelligence” (beyond AGI) with safety as the top priority.

🔍 What Is SSI Building?

🔹 Not just AGI, but superintelligence—AI that far surpasses human cognition.
🔹 “Safety-first” approach—ensuring control before scaling.
🔹 Sutskever hinted at a “different mountain to climb”—possibly a new AI architecture beyond transformers.

📈 The AI Unicorn Boom Continues

SSI’s funding follows Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines (ex-OpenAI CTO) also raising big. Investors are betting hard on ex-OpenAI talent.

🔸 OpenAI’s valuation: ~90B
🔸Anthropic: 61B
🔸 SSI: $32B (without a product!)

🤔 The Big Questions

• Will SSI’s approach differ from OpenAI’s? (Sutskever was key to GPT’s breakthroughs.)

• How will they balance speed vs. safety?

• Is this the start of a new AI arms race?

📌 Bottom Line: SSI’s funding shows that investors believe superintelligence is near—and are willing to bet billions on it.

💬 Your Take?
Is SSI the next OpenAI? Or is this valuation hype?

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