Inflection AI

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Inflection AI, Inc.
Company type Public benefit corporation
Industry Artificial intelligence
Founded2022;2 years ago (2022)
Founders
Headquarters Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Key people
Sean White (CEO)
ProductsPi
Number of employees
35 (2023)
Website inflection.ai
Footnotes /references
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Inflection AI, Inc. is a technology company which has developed a machine learning and generative artificial intelligence hardware and apps, founded in 2022. [2] [3] [4] The company is structured as a public benefit corporation and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. [5] [6]

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History

The company was founded by entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan in 2022. [2] [3] [4] The company has collaborated with Nvidia to develop hardware for generative artificial intelligence. [7]

In June 2023, the company raised $1.3 billion USD at $4 billion valuation. [7]

In March 2024, Suleyman and Simonyan announced their departure from the company in order to start Microsoft AI. [8]

Products

The first product released widely by Inflection AI is a chatbot, Pi, named for “personal intelligence,” that is intended to function as an artificial intelligence-based personal assistant. [9] Among the user experience goals that the company has stated for the Pi product are: providing an experience of emotional support for human users, in which the chatbot should be able to maintain an interactive text or voice-based dialogue with a human user that includes elements of kindness, a diplomatic tone about sensitive topics, and humor. [10] Comparisons and contrasts have been made between the Pi chatbot and ChatGPT, a chatbot created by OpenAI. [11]

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References

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