Why is it in the news?
- Pi, developed by Inflection AI, launched in May 2023, is a chatbot designed to be empathetic, helpful, and safe, offering meaningful conversations.
- It is the world’s ‘friendliest’ chatbot, powered by the new Inflection-2.5 Large Language Model (LLM) which claims to be competitive with leading LLMs like GPT-4, while using only 40% of the computation power for training.
- Released recently, Inflection 2.5 is accessible to all Pi users across multiple platforms, including pi.ai, iOS, and Android.
| · Inflection AI, a California-based startup was founded in 2022 by Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman, and Karen Simonyan.
· Mustafa Suleyman, a British AI researcher, was formerly the co-founder and head of applied AI at DeepMind, while Reid Hoffman is the co-founder of LinkedIn. · In June last year, the company raised $1.3 billion in funding led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, and NVIDIA. |
