Inflection AI

[wjfox]

Inflection AI, The Year-Old Startup Behind Chatbot Pi, Raises $1.3 Billion

Jun 29, 2023, 09:00am EDT

Backed by Microsoft, Nvidia and billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt, the startup led by ex-DeepMind leader Mustafa Suleyman is valued at $4 billion — and claims to have the world’s best AI hardware setup.

Less than two months after the launch of their first chatbot Pi, artificial intelligence startup Inflection AI and CEO Mustafa Suleyman have raised $1.3 billion in new funding.

Microsoft, Nvidia and three of tech’s most influential billionaires led the investment in the Palo Alto-based startup launched in early 2022. LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt all personally invested, with Nvidia the sole new investor among the group.

The new funding values Inflection at $4 billion, according to a source with knowledge of the transaction. Inflection said the company and Suleyman remained majority shareholders and declined further comment.

In an interview, Suleyman said that the group of mostly insiders proposed the additional investment after Inflection was “overwhelmed with offers” following the launch of Pi, its conversational chatbot launched in May. “I think people can see that it’s just the tip of the iceberg,” Suleyman told Forbes. “There’s so much further to go after [Pi] validates the core thesis, which is that conversation is the new interface.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad ... hatbot-pi/

[Cyber_Rebel]

Inflection AI Develops Supercomputer Equipped With 22,000 NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs

(wccftech)

Inflection AI, an AI startup company, has built a cutting-edge supercomputer equipped with 22,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, which is a phenomenal number and brings enormous computing performance onboard.

Inflection AI's Supercomputer Expected to Be One Of The Largest In the Industry, Right Behind AMD's Frontier
For those unfamiliar with Inflection AI, it is a business that aims at creating "personal AI for everyone." The company is widely known for its recently introduced Inflection-1 AI model, which powers the Pi chatbot. Although the AI model hasn't yet reached the level of ChatGPT or Google's LaMDA models, reports suggest that Inflection-1 performs well on "common sense" tasks, making it much more suitable for applications such as personal assistance.

[Cyber_Rebel]

Inflection AI's Mustafa Suleyman tells OpenAI staff 'come run with us' after 'utterly insane' weekend

(BusinessInsider)

The cofounder of Inflection AI weighed in on the "utterly insane" weekend experienced by its rival OpenAI and told workers to "come run with us."

Mustafa Suleyman, who's also CEO, took to X on Monday, offering his sympathy to "everyone involved" and using the opportunity to trumpet his AI startup's progress.

"In the meantime, we finished training Inflection-2 last night! It's now the 2nd best LLM in the world ... & we're scaling MUCH further," Suleyman said in an X post. "Details v soon. Come run with us!"

[spryfusion]

https://inflection.ai/inflection-2-5

[firestar464]

That was unexpected.

[wjfox]

I'm reading his book at the moment – "The Coming Wave". Probably the best future-related book since Kurzweil's TSIN.

Suleyman seems like a good guy and has been at the forefront of AI alignment/safety.

[firestar464]

I wonder if Bing's gonna become more censored lmao

[Powers]

I wonder if Bing's gonna become more censored lmao

Isn't it already? If you mean more then not soon.

[Tadasuke]

For me, using "-" when searching something in Bing (to exclude certain words) used to work (i.e. 5 years ago), but it hasn't worked in the last 2-3 years or so.

Bing Images constantly recommends me something completely unrelated to my interests and it is very inconvenient to find something quickly in Bing or Google (or DuckDuckGo or Yahoo or Startpage). The results are not what I mean, want or need and it is very frustrating. Moreover, results which used to appear years ago don't appear these days, even though they often still exist.

I really hope it changes for the better and the new CEO of Microsoft AI (Mustafa Suleyman) will be directing it all in a good, considerate, contributive and supportive direction.

It would be nice if the so called AI started being more helpful in everyday situations while using Windows 11, Microsoft Edge or other Microsoft software.

[firestar464]

It's worked just fine for "everyday situations" for me. Like I asked previously, what are your usecases?

[Tadasuke]

It's not just me. There are a lot of random comments like that on the web. An example:



I'm not against AI, I just think that it's way overhyped and overmarketed, like everything. VR was also supposed to be "almost ready to explode in popularity and capabilities" in 2016. Or AR. Crappy Pokemon Go "AR" game regarded as a sign of things to come in the coming years. Not really. It is all always at least a decade in the future.

Virgin Galactic was supposed to take (commercially) people into space (meaning at least 100 km above Earth) for $200 000 for 45 minutes in 2007. It is 2024 and they are still not doing it. It will probably take 20-25 years longer than they expected and falsely advertised. Very usual thing to happen. It can be seen and experienced over and over and over again, every year, every decade.

[firestar464]

I know that everyone's usecases will be different and AI will be useful to varying degrees, so I asked what your needs are. What's so difficult about this question?

The difference between the things you just mentioned is that people weren't monitoring the trends carefully AFAIK. For AI, people certainly are.

[firestar464]

[JohnMeeks]

For me, using "-" when searching something in Bing (to exclude certain words) used to work (i.e. 5 years ago), but it hasn't worked in the last 2-3 years or so.

Bing Images constantly recommends me something completely unrelated to my interests and it is very inconvenient to find something quickly in Bing or Google (or DuckDuckGo or Yahoo or Startpage). The results are not what I mean, want or need and it is very frustrating. Moreover, results which used to appear years ago don't appear these days, even though they often still exist.

I really hope it changes for the better and the new CEO of Microsoft AI (Mustafa Suleyman) will be directing it all in a good, considerate, contributive and supportive direction.

It would be nice if the so called AI started being more helpful in everyday situations while using Windows 11, Microsoft Edge or other Microsoft software. If they can improve their AI interfaces as they promise, it will significantly simplify the experience of using search engines and other apps. For example, I've been frequently checking my devices with airpods serial number checker lately. For example, I recently checked the serial number of my AirPods. It's important for technology to be useful and support everyday tasks, not just advertise new products. I think if Inflection AI delivers on what their CEO promises, we'll all see a real improvement in the way we work with AI.

I'm currently searching for everything through the GPT chat. It gives me the specific answer I need, while Google is full of useless information.