The Inflection AI Story: How a Secretive Unicorn Reached a $4 Billion Valuation

Inflection AI, a promising Gen AI startup, made headlines in June after securing $1.3 billion in funding and a $4 billion valuation within just two years of its launch. The sudden rise was fueled by backing from influential investors like Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Microsoft is supporting Inflection with its cloud computing infrastructure, while Nvidia is contributing 20,000 H100 GPUs for LLM training in partnership with CoreWeave. The company's core product, AI assistant Pi, and …

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