Microsoft hires Inflection founders to run new consumer AI division

Microsoft led a $1.3 billion funding in Inflection AI last year

Microsoft hires Inflection founders to run new consumer AI division

Microsoft pulls Infection AI’s cofounder to run its new AI division.

https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/microsoft-pulls-infection-ais-cofounder-run-new-ai-division

Inflection co-founders leave for Microsoft AI (4 minute read)

Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan are leaving Inflection to start Microsoft AI. Sean White is joining as the new CEO. A few senior team members from Inflection are also joining Microsoft AI.

Via The Neuron

“RIP Pi. We hardly knew ya.

Is this what it feels like to see your favorite rock star retire?

We’re huge fans of Pi, the chatbot that’s an awesome personal confidante, coach and sounding board.

And we’ll be huge fans ‘til the very end, even though nearly all of Pi’s parent company, Inflection AI, decided to jump ship just 10 months after Pi’s launch.

What can we say? We’re the loyal type.

That includes the CEO, Chief Scientist and nearly all 70 employees. All are joining Microsoft to work on Microsoft Copilot and other AI products.

Good product doesn’t mean good business. After raising $1.5B(!), Pi really had to get as big as Facebook for the business math to work out. But it’s clear they couldn’t find enough people like us to fall in love with Pi, much less charge us a single dollar.

BTW, every AI startup faces that pressure, including our other fave Perplexity, which has to get as close to Google size as they can.

Which means if you like an AI tool, be ready to look for backups. They’re all startups and you’re all early adopters, after all!

Updated list of chatbots to use (in order):

Claude 3 ChatGPT-4 Google Gemini Perplexity Bing Chat Pi (RIP)*

*Pi isn’t shutting down today, but let’s face it, it’s a matter of time”