In the upcoming months, the startup Inflection plans to cap the amount of free access to its AI chatbot Pi. As the company’s focus moves toward corporate products under the leadership of the new CEO, users can now export their chats from the AI chatbot.
Less than a year after Inflection raised $1.3 billion to develop the AI chatbot that is “emotionally intelligent,” usage limitations have been implemented. Five months ago, Microsoft, one of the deal’s primary backers, recruited away the majority of Inflection’s employees and paid $650 million to license the company’s AI technology and reimburse investors. Inflection claimed that Pi had millions of weekly users at the time.
Antitrust authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom have taken notice of the purchase and are currently looking into whether Microsoft was acting in an anticompetitive manner when it effectively acquired Inflection. Ever since, the severely damaged firm has been guided through this challenging post-acquisition stage by CEO Sean White.
An Inflection representative said two weeks ago that the firm intended to sunset Pi, which makes sense given that Inflection is now more resource limited than it was in the past.
White said, “We have to use our resources very carefully.”
Since then, White claims the company’s plans have evolved and it is now dedicated to keeping consumer Pi afloat. Nevertheless, Inflection believes that usage limitations on the free chatbot will mostly impact power users and will lessen the burden on its GPU resources. The specifics of those caps are still being worked out, according to a spokeswoman.
Additionally, users can take any significant discussions they may have with Pi off the chatbot by using Inflection. In order to enable users to export their discussions from Pi or, in theory, import conversations from other chatbots, it has partnered with the Data Transfers Initiative.
Inflection, in White’s opinion, is leading the AI market in terms of data mobility and transferability, and he hopes that other businesses will take note. Users can simply remove their talks from Pi, as Inflection was the first to do so. They are unable to import their Pi discussions to ChatGPT or any other chatbot.
Inflection’s future strategy might involve licensing AI models to businesses so they can integrate them into their own systems. According to White, 13,000 businesses have expressed interest in receiving API access from Pi by completing an application.
Since we don’t have enough resources to handle 13,000 requests, we’ve got to be really picky about the people we start working with,” White said.
He continued by saying that the business has discussed possible uses of its enterprise solutions in meetings with major banks, insurers, and a number of Fortune 500 businesses. According to White, Inflection can tailor AI models to individual firms more effectively than rivals because of its infrastructure for fine-tuning. In the fall, he plans to reveal the first enterprise partnerships and products.