Inflection AI recently announced that the company has raised $1.3 billion in a new round of funding led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and new investor NVIDIA. And the new funding round brings the total raised by the company to $1.525 billion.
Along with its partners CoreWeave and NVIDIA, the company is building the largest AI cluster in the world comprising 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. And in just over a year, Inflection AI has developed one of the most sophisticated large language models in the market for enabling people to interact with Pi, your Personal AI (pi.ai), in the most simple, natural way and receive fast, relevant, and helpful information and advice.
This funding round will support the company’s continued work to build and design Inflection’s first product, which launched in May. Known as a new class of AI, Pi is designed to be a kind and supportive companion offering text and voice conversations, friendly advice, and concise information in a natural, flowing style.
Previously, Inflection AI raised $225 million in the first round of funding in early 2022 from Greylock, Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Mike Schroepfer, Demis Hassabis, Will.i.am, Horizons Ventures, and Dragoneer.
Pi was created to give people a new way to express themselves, share curiosities, explore new ideas, and experience a trusted personal AI. And it is built on world-class proprietary AI technology developed in-house.
Pi stands for “personal intelligence” since it can provide infinite knowledge based on a person’s unique interests and needs. And Pi is a teacher, coach, confidante, creative partner, and sounding board. It is being continuously updated with new features and improvements. Users can talk to Pi across several platforms and continue the conversation whenever, wherever they are.
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“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
“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. 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.”
— Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA
“We’re proud to support Inflection AI as they pursue their vision for more trusted and personal AI experiences. 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
“We are very excited to partner with Inflection AI, a pioneering AI company with an outstanding team, to bring the power of supercomputing to cutting-edge consumer products.”
— Michael Intrator, CEO of CoreWeave
