Inflection AI is officially done trying to build next-generation frontier models. New CEO Sean White says competing against 100,000-GPU systems makes no sense for them anymore. The startup has acquired three companies over two months to pivot completely toward practical on-prem enterprise software.
UK antitrust regulators just opened a formal merger investigation into Microsoft’s hiring spree of Inflection AI staff. The watchdog is evaluating whether poaching co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and most of the startup's team functions as an unapproved backdoor acquisition. The CMA set a September 11 deadline to decide on a deeper review, putting Big Tech's clever AI deal structures on notice.
Inflection just rolled out Inflection-2.5, claiming it rivals GPT-4 while using only 40% of the training compute. The upgrade powers its personal assistant Pi, joining Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.5 in a sudden wave of contenders breaking OpenAI's performance barrier.
Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman just told revolting OpenAI employees to "come run with us," seizing on the drama following Sam Altman's sudden ouster. He paired the pitch with an announcement that Inflection-2 just wrapped training as the world's "2nd best LLM." With OpenAI staffers threatening mutiny, rivals are turning the turmoil into an aggressive talent grab.
Inflection AI just gave its conversational assistant Pi real-time web access. Users can now ask Pi about breaking news and live events directly. The friendly companion bot is no longer trapped in the past, finally closing the knowledge gap with competitors.
Industry analyst Jeremiah Owyang warns that traditional SEO driving clicks to websites is breaking as users increasingly get answers directly inside chatbots. Marketers must now pivot to AI Engine Optimization, deliberately feeding data and custom APIs to foundational models to get cited and recommended.
Inflection AI just raised a staggering $1.3 billion in a new funding round led by Microsoft, Bill Gates, and Nvidia, pushing its valuation to $4 billion. The startup is partnering with CoreWeave and Nvidia to build an unprecedented 22,000 H100 GPU cluster to train models for its personal assistant, Pi.
Nvidia just swept all eight tests in the latest MLPerf training benchmarks, setting records across the board with its H100 GPUs. In one standout test, a cluster of 3,584 H100s run by CoreWeave completed a massive GPT-3 workload in under 11 minutes. Why it matters: The near-linear scaling proves Nvidia’s full-stack hardware and networking dominance remains virtually untouchable for training frontier AI.
Inflection just took the wraps off Inflection-1, the in-house LLM powering its conversational assistant, Pi. Matching GPT-3.5 in training compute, it shines on common sense and high-school-level test benchmarks, though it still falls behind on coding. The team says a larger model comparable to GPT-4 is already in the oven.
Inflection AI just launched Pi, an AI chatbot built to feel more like a supportive, witty conversational partner than an automated work tool. Founded by DeepMind and LinkedIn veterans, the startup explicitly designed Pi to avoid coding or essay generation, focusing purely on day-to-day dialogue and high emotional intelligence. Why it matters: as the race heats up around workplace productivity bots, Pi is betting that people really want an empathetic sounding board that constantly reminds them it's actually an AI.
CB Insights just mapped out the generative AI landscape, revealing that startups raised over $2.6B across 110 deals in 2022. Despite massive hype around ChatGPT, more than 80% of identified companies are still at Series A or earlier, showing the market is just getting started.
