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OpenAI competitor Palo Alto-based Inflection AI has raised $1.3 billion in a funding round led by Microsoft, Reed Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and new investor Nvidia, totaling $1.3 billion. announced that it has raised $1.525 billion.
The round values the company at about $4 billion, according to a Reuters report.
Inflection AI claims to be building the world’s largest AI cluster with partners CoreWeave and Nvidia. Once complete, the system will consist of 22,000 He Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs, according to the release.
“Deploying 22,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs in a single cluster is truly unprecedented, supporting the training and deployment of a new generation of large-scale AI models. “It delivers a staggering 22 exaFLOPS in bit precision mode, and even more when using lower precision.”
The current system contains over 3,500 H100s and recently completed a reference training task for the open source benchmark MLPerf in 11 minutes. Inflection AI worked with Nvidia and CoreWeave to run MLPerf tests to fine tune and optimize the cluster.
The company has developed a large language model, Inflection-1, that enables interaction with Pi, a personal AI chatbot. The company says the new funding will support its continued efforts to build and support the Pi. Inflection AI is a “new class of AI designed to make the Pi “a friendly, supportive companion that delivers text and voice conversations, friendly advice, and concise information in a natural, flowing style.” ” is explained.
Pi, which stands for “personal intelligence,” is marketed as an AI focused on prioritizing people’s interests in both functionality and monetization. Inflection AI’s CEO and co-founder, Mustafa Suleiman, said in a blog post, “I’m looking forward to working with you, with just his one mission: to make you happier, healthier and more productive. Imagine a personal AI companion.”
Instead of big tech companies prioritizing advertisers and content creators, Inflection AI is trying a different approach, Suleiman said.
“We don’t have all the answers, but we’re committed to developing the personal intelligence that really works for you, in your corner, always ready for your team. Aligning your AI tightly with you and your interests means designing an AI that articulates its intentions, organizes your life, and is there for you when you need it most. ‘ he wrote.
Suleyman, co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, will create Inflection AI in 2022 with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and DeepMind alumnus Karén Simonyan, Inflection AI’s lead scientist. bottom.
The Founders defined Inflection AI as a public benefit corporation (PBC), defined as “the economic interests of our shareholders and the best interests of those who are materially affected by our activities, and in furtherance of our specific public interest purposes.” , “Developing products and technologies that harness the power of AI to improve human well-being and productivity while respecting individual liberties, working for the common good, and making our products widely beneficial today.” to do. and to future generations. ”
“A powerful advantage of the AI revolution is the ability to interact with supercomputers using natural conversational language, simplifying many aspects of everyday life,” Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in a release. says. “The world-class team at Inflection AI is leading this groundbreaking effort by deploying NVIDIA AI technology to develop, train and deploy large-scale generative AI models that enable amazing personal digital assistants. doing.”
“We are extremely excited to partner with Inflection AI, a pioneering AI company with a talented team, to bring the power of supercomputing to cutting-edge consumer products.” said Michael Intrator, CEO of CoreWeave.
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