Inflection went public in March, 2022. It was founded by Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Founder, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder, DeepMind and Karen Simonyan, a former DeepMind researcher.

As a startup Infletion AI has drawn funds from many stalwarts and companies.

Inflection-2 is a language model. It outperforms competitors such as PaLM-2 and Claude 2 and is a shade less than GPT-4. The current version is more powerful than Inflection1. Inflection1 can be compared to GPT-3.5 and PaLM-540B. Inflection 2 will soon catch up with GPT-4.

Inflection 2’s training was done on H100 GPUs of Nvidia. About 5000 chips were used. As compared to GPT-4, Inflection 2 scored 890 on the HellaSwag 10-shot, thus nearing GPT-4 score of 95.3. Inflection 2 outperforms Claude2 with chain-of-thought reasoning. Inflection 2 falls short of GPT-4 for coding and math tasks.

Inflection2 will soon run the company’s Pi chatbot.