Inflection AI
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2022; 3 years ago (2022) |
| Founders |
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| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Key people | Sean White (CEO) |
| Products | Pi |
Number of employees | 70 (2024)[1] |
| Website | inflection |
| Footnotes / references [2] | |
Inflection AI, Inc. is an American technology company which has developed machine learning and generative artificial intelligence hardware and apps, founded in 2022.[3] [4] [5] The company is structured as a public benefit corporation and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.[6] [7]
History
[edit ]The company was founded by entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan in 2022.[3] [4] [5] The company has collaborated with Nvidia to develop hardware for generative artificial intelligence.[8]
In June 2023, the company raised US1ドル.3 billion at 4ドル billion valuation.[8]
In March 2024, Suleyman and Simonyan announced their departure from the company in order to start Microsoft AI, with Microsoft acqui-hiring nearly the entirety of its 70-person workforce.[9] As part of the deal, Microsoft paid Inflection 650ドル million to license its technology. The proceeds were used to reimburse Inflection AI's investors.[10] UK's Competition and Markets Authority launched a preliminary probe into the deal to examine the impact on competition and whether the agreement constituted a merger.[11] The regulator concluded that the deal amounted to a "merger situation," but did not pose a threat to competition due to Inflection's small share in the UK consumer market.[12]
Products
[edit ]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.[13] 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.[14] Comparisons and contrasts have been made between the Pi chatbot and ChatGPT, a chatbot created by OpenAI.[15]
References
[edit ]- ^ Hays, Kali (December 10, 2024). "Inflection CEO talks rebuilding a startup, AI 'in dialogue with the planet' and working with Trump". Fortune. Retrieved 2025年09月04日.
- ^ Nishant, Niket; Hu, Krystal (2023年06月29日). "Microsoft-backed AI startup Inflection raises 1ドル.3 billion from Nvidia and others". Reuters.
- ^ a b Wiggers, Kyle (2022年05月13日). "Inflection AI raises 225ドルM to supercharge computer-human interactions". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023年06月16日.
- ^ a b Quach, Katyanna. "LinkedIn billionaire launches Inflection AI startup". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2023年06月16日.
- ^ a b Shead, Sam (2022年03月08日). "Reid Hoffman has co-founded his first new company since LinkedIn sale". CNBC. Retrieved 2023年06月16日.
- ^ Konrad, Alex (2023年06月29日). "Inflection AI, The Year-Old Startup Behind Chatbot Pi, Raises 1ドル.3 Billion". Forbes.
- ^ Kahn, Jeremy (2023年05月03日). "DeepMind cofounder's new A.I. chatbot is a good listener. And that's about it. Is that enough?". Fortune.
- ^ a b Konrad, Alex. "Inflection AI, The Year-Old Startup Behind Chatbot Pi, Raises 1ドル.3 Billion". Forbes. Retrieved 2023年10月20日.
- ^ "The new Inflection: An important change to how we'll work". Inflection. Retrieved 2024年03月19日.
- ^ Griffith, Erin; Metz, Cade (August 8, 2024). "The New A.I. Deal: Buy Everything but the Company". The New York Times.
- ^ Orru, Mauro (July 16, 2024). "Microsoft Faces U.K. Antitrust Probe Over Ties to Inflection AI". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "UK competition watchdog clears Microsoft's hiring of AI startup's core staff". Associated Press. September 4, 2024.
- ^ Konrad, Alex. "Inflection AI, Startup From Ex-DeepMind Leaders, Launches Pi — A Chattier Chatbot". Forbes. Retrieved 2023年06月16日.
- ^ Hu, Krystal (2023年05月02日). "Hoffman and Suleyman's AI startup Inflection launches ChatGPT-like chatbot". Reuters. Retrieved 2023年06月16日.
- ^ "LinkedIn co-founder and Google DeepMind co-founder's startup Inflection AI launches 'Pi' chatbot". Business Today. 2023年05月03日. Retrieved 2023年06月16日.