Inflection AI, a Palo Alto-based company, has raised $1.3 billion in funding led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and NVIDIA. In partnership with CoreWeave and NVIDIA, the company is developing the world’s largest AI cluster, consisting of 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. Inflection AI has also created Pi, a personal AI designed to provide information and advice in a natural, conversational manner. The funding will support the continued development of Pi and other products. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Inflection AI, believes personal AI will be a transformational tool.
“Personal AI is going to be the most transformational tool of our lifetimes. This is truly an inflection point. We’re excited to collaborate with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and CoreWeave as well as Eric, Bill and many others to bring this vision to life,”
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI.
Inflection AI Secures $1.3 Billion in Funding
The funding round was led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and new investor NVIDIA. This new investment brings the total funding raised by the company to $1.525 billion. The funds will support the company’s ongoing work to build and design its first product, Pi, which was launched in May.
Building the World’s Largest AI Cluster
In collaboration with its partners CoreWeave and NVIDIA, Inflection AI is constructing the world’s largest AI cluster, consisting of 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. In just over a year, the company has developed one of the market’s most advanced large language models. This model enables people to interact with Pi, a personal AI, in a simple, natural way and receive fast, relevant, and helpful information and advice.
Introduction of Pi, a New Class of AI
Pi, Inflection AI’s first product, is a new class of AI designed to be a kind and supportive companion. It offers text and voice conversations, friendly advice, and concise information in a natural, flowing style. Pi stands for “personal intelligence” because it can provide infinite knowledge based on a person’s unique interests and needs. It is a teacher, coach, confidante, creative partner, and sounding board. It is being continuously updated with new features and improvements.
“We’re proud to support Inflection AI as they pursue their vision for more trusted and personal AI experiences,”
Kevin Scott, CTO and EVP AI, Microsoft.
Partnerships and Support for Inflection AI
Inflection AI has received support and collaboration from several industry leaders, including NVIDIA, Microsoft, and CoreWeave. These partnerships are helping Inflection AI to lead groundbreaking work in the AI industry, deploying NVIDIA AI technology to develop, train, and deploy massive generative AI models that enable excellent personal digital assistants.
“A powerful benefit of the AI revolution is the ability to use natural, conversational language to interact with supercomputers to simplify aspects of our everyday lives,”
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
Inflection AI is an ‘AI Studio’ based in Palo Alto, CA, specialising in creating personal AIs. It was founded in early 2022 by Mustafa Suleyman, Karén Simonyan, and Reid Hoffman. The company’s mission is to make personal AIs available to everyone worldwide. The company is set up as a Public Benefit Corporation, and the Inflection AI team includes some of the industry’s top AI experts who previously worked at DeepMind, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Meta.
“It is an exciting time, and ambitious AI companies like Inflection AI are pioneering the industry with transformative products that are accessible, easy to use, and show the many possibilities of AI.”
Kevin Scott, CTO and EVP AI, Microsoft.
Executive Summary
Inflection AI has raised $1.3 billion in a new funding round, led by Microsoft and NVIDIA, to continue developing Pi, a personal AI designed to offer text and voice conversations, advice, and information in a natural style. In partnership with CoreWeave and NVIDIA, the company is building the world’s largest AI cluster, comprising 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, to support the training and deployment of large-scale AI models.
The world-class team at Inflection AI is helping to lead this groundbreaking work, deploying NVIDIA AI technology to develop, train and deploy massive generative AI models that enable amazing personal digital assistants.”
- Inflection AI, a company specialising in creating personal AIs, has raised $1.3 billion in a funding round led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and NVIDIA, bringing the total raised to $1.525 billion.
- The company, in partnership with CoreWeave and NVIDIA, is building the world’s largest AI cluster, consisting of 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
- Inflection AI has developed a sophisticated large language model to enable interaction with Pi, a personal AI, in a simple, natural way.
- The funding will support the continued development and design of Inflection’s first product, Pi, which was launched in May.
- Pi is a new class of AI designed to offer text and voice conversations, friendly advice, and concise information in a natural, flowing style.
- Mustafa Suleyman, CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI, believes personal AI will be the most transformational tool of our lifetimes.
- Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, and Kevin Scott, CTO and EVP AI of Microsoft, expressed their support for Inflection AI’s groundbreaking work.
- Michael Intrator, CEO of CoreWeave, is excited to partner with Inflection AI to bring supercomputing power to consumer products.
- Inflection AI was founded in 2022 by Mustafa Suleyman, Karén Simonyan, and Reid Hoffman.
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