Company type | Public benefit corporation |
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Industry | Artificial intelligence |
Founded | 2022 |
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Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Key people | Sean White (CEO) |
Products | Pi |
Number of employees | 35 (2023) |
Website | inflection |
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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]
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]
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]