Inflection AI
Founded by ex-DeepMind researchers
About Inflection AI
Inflection AI was founded in 2022 by Mustafa Suleyman (co-founder of DeepMind), Karén Simonyan (DeepMind researcher), and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder) to build a personal AI assistant called Pi. The company trained its own large language models and launched Pi as a conversational AI focused on being empathetic, helpful, and safe.
In March 2024, Microsoft hired Suleyman and most of Inflection's technical staff to lead Microsoft AI, in a deal structured as a licensing agreement worth approximately $650 million. Inflection pivoted to an enterprise AI studio under new CEO Sean White, offering its Inflection models as an enterprise platform for building custom AI applications.
Despite losing its founder and much of its team, Inflection continues to develop AI models and provides enterprise customers with the ability to fine-tune and deploy AI on their own infrastructure.
Products & Services
Pi
Personal AI assistant designed to be empathetic and conversational. Focuses on emotional intelligence and supportive interaction.
Consumer ProductInflection for Enterprise
Enterprise AI studio for building and deploying custom AI applications using Inflection's models.
Enterprise PlatformInflection 2.5
Proprietary LLM competitive with GPT-4 on benchmarks. Available for enterprise deployment.
AI ModelLeadership
Notable Achievements
- ✓ Co-founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman
- ✓ Pi pioneered empathetic, emotionally intelligent AI conversation
- ✓ Inflection 2.5 matched GPT-4 on key benchmarks
- ✓ Microsoft hired most of the team in a $650M licensing deal
- ✓ Raised $1.5B including investment from Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Reid Hoffman
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