SSI (Ilya Sutskever's company), if successful, will change a lot of things.

SSI (Ilya Sutskever's company), if successful, will change a lot of things. | I mean, if he pulls it off, uh it will change a lot of things. Yes.

I mean, if he pulls it off, uh it will change a lot of things. Yes.

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