Inflection AI
| Company type | Public benefit corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2022 |
| Founders |
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| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Key people | Mustafa Suleyman (CEO) |
| Products | Pi |
Number of employees | 35 (2023) |
| Website | inflection |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
Inflection AI, Inc. is a machine learning startup founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan in 2022.[2][3][4] The company is structured as a public benefit corporation and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.[5][6]
Products
The first product in wide release by Inflection AI is a chatbot, Pi, named for “personal intelligence,” that is intended to function as an artificial intelligence-based personal assistant.[7] Among the user experience goals that the company has stated for the Pi product include: providing an experience of emotional support for human users, in which the chatbot should be able to maintain an interactive text-based dialogue with a human user that includes elements of kindness, a diplomatic tone about sensitive topics, and humor.[8] Comparisons and contrasts have been drawn between the Pi chatbot and ChatGPT, a chatbot created by OpenAI.[9]
References
- ^ Nishant, Niket; Hu, Krystal (2023-06-29). "Microsoft-backed AI startup Inflection raises $1.3 billion from Nvidia and others". Reuters.
- ^ Wiggers, Kyle (2022-05-13). "Inflection AI raises $225M to supercharge computer-human interactions". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ^ Quach, Katyanna. "LinkedIn billionaire launches Inflection AI startup". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ^ Shead, Sam (2022-03-08). "Reid Hoffman has co-founded his first new company since LinkedIn sale". CNBC. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ^ Konrad, Alex (2023-06-29). "Inflection AI, The Year-Old Startup Behind Chatbot Pi, Raises $1.3 Billion". Forbes.
- ^ Kahn, Jeremy (2023-05-03). "DeepMind cofounder's new A.I. chatbot is a good listener. And that's about it. Is that enough?". Fortune.
- ^ Konrad, Alex. "Inflection AI, Startup From Ex-DeepMind Leaders, Launches Pi — A Chattier Chatbot". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ^ Hu, Krystal (2023-05-02). "Hoffman and Suleyman's AI startup Inflection launches ChatGPT-like chatbot". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ^ "LinkedIn co-founder and Google DeepMind co-founder's startup Inflection AI launches 'Pi' chatbot". Business Today. 2023-05-03. Retrieved 2023-06-16.