June 19 (Reuters) - ChatGPT maker OpenAI's co-founder

and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said on Wednesday that

he was starting a new artificial intelligence company.

The company is focused on creating a safe AI environment at

a time when some of the biggest tech companies are looking to

dominate the generative AI boom.

The company is called Safe Superintelligence and is

described on its website as an American firm with offices in

Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. Sutskever made the announcement

revealing that he was starting the company in a post on X.

"Our singular focus means no distraction by management

overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety,

security, and progress are all insulated from short-term

commercial pressures," the post says.

Sutskever is joined as by former OpenAI researcher Daniel

Levy and Daniel Gross, co-founder of Cue and a former AI lead at

Apple ( AAPL ) as co-founders of Safe Superintelligence.

Sutskever left Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed OpenAI in May after playing

a key role in CEO Sam Altman's dramatic firing and rehiring in

November last year. Sutskever was removed from the company's

board after Altman returned.