Under the agreement, SSI will gain access to NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin computing platform, which the companies say will increase SSI’s available computing capacity by roughly ten times. SSI and NVIDIA will also collaborate on improving current and future AI computing platforms.

The announcement is significant because SSI has been working privately on research aimed at developing powerful, robustly aligned artificial intelligence. NVIDIA said the partnership followed access to SSI’s closely guarded research and is intended to accelerate the company’s next stage of development.