Palo Alto, CA, June 29th, 2023 – Inflection AI today announced that the company has raised $1.3 billion in a fresh round of funding led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and new investor NVIDIA. The new funding brings the total raised by the company to $1.525 billion.
Along with its partners CoreWeave and NVIDIA, Inflection AI is building the largest AI cluster in the world comprising 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. In just over a year, Inflection AI has developed one of the most sophisticated large language models in the market to enable 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.
The funding will support the company’s continued work to build and design Inflection’s first product, launched in May. 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. [...]
Largest AI cluster in the world
The deployment of 22,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs in one cluster is truly unprecedented, and will support training and deployment of a new generation of large-scale AI models. Combined, the cluster develops a staggering 22 exaFLOPS in the 16-bit precision mode, and even more if lower precision is utilized. We estimate that if we entered our cluster in the recent TOP500 list of supercomputers, it would be the 2nd and close to the top entry, despite being optimized for AI – rather than scientific – applications. The rollout of the cluster is actively under way, and we have already been able to confirm its performance in the recent MLPerf benchmark.
Inflection AI announces $1.3 billion of funding led by current investors, Microsoft, and NVIDIA
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