Artificial Intelligence start-up Inflection AI has made an enormous breakthrough in its growth trajectory. Lower than two months after unveiling their debut chatbot named Pi, Forbes has reported that the Palo Alto-based AI firm has garnered a staggering $1.3 billion in funding. The colossal investment was led by Microsoft, Nvidia, and three of the tech industry’s most distinguished figures: Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder; Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder; and Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO.

Tying the Knot with Microsoft and Nvidia

Details of Inflection’s fresh agreement with Microsoft and Nvidia remain under wraps, with CEO Mustafa Suleyman opting not to reveal the cash-equivalent breakdown of the $1.3 billion raised.

Moreover, Suleyman clarified that neither Microsoft nor Nvidia had control over the business similar to ownership, nor did they’ve any preferential rights. “There’s no IP movement, and we still are entirely independent and at liberty to do whatever we wish on the industrial front, and partner with whomever we wish. So there are not any real restrictions,” he said.

What is clear is the deepening relationship between Inflection, Microsoft, and Nvidia, each of whom are key players within the AI race. Microsoft serves as Inflection’s cloud computing partner while Nvidia has worked closely with Inflection in deploying its flagship H100 graphics processing unit (GPU), which currently sets the benchmark for AI training and powering extensive language models.

Unprecedented Computational Power and Future Endeavors

Inflection’s latest round of funding and its ongoing partnership with Nvidia and CoreWeave (a service provider that assists within the deployment of GPUs) are set to turbocharge its computational capability. Inflection is gearing up to spice up its current cluster of three,584 H100 GPUs to an astounding 22,000 units. This impressive expansion is anticipated to make Inflection the world’s largest GPU cluster for AI applications, surpassing Meta’s 16,000 GPU cluster and potentially rivaling OpenAI’s deployment on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service.

Suleyman spoke highly of the partnership with Microsoft and Nvidia, “Microsoft has been amazing, they’re turbo-charging us, they’re our anchor,” he said. “And because of this of our collaboration with Nvidia, we’ve been capable of tune our cluster to get it to be the best possible on the planet. We will objectively say now that now we have the best hardware on the planet.”

Following this monumental investment, Inflection plans to amplify its computing capabilities and further refine Pi. Suleyman noted that Pi has been witnessing “huge engagement” because it repeatedly evolves to offer more useful interaction with users. Beyond Pi, Inflection is trying to launch an API for chosen partners to create their very own conversational AIs.

This latest funding round is testament to the growing investor confidence in AI technology, marking a big milestone in Inflection AI’s journey to push the boundaries of AI-powered conversational interfaces.