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Inflection-1: The Next Frontier of Personal AI

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having such a great impact on the world today. And it doesn’t seem like it’s slowing down at all. The revolution of AI technology is changing the future and the world we live in.

We’ve had so much news in 2023, with AI systems being released left right and center. There is so much hype around GPT-3.5 and LLaMa, with high expectations that nothing will be able to surpass their performance. In order to produce better performance within Generative AI, it consists of a lot of pre-training and fine-tuning.

Inflection.AI is an AI start-up with a mission to create a personal AI for everyone for their unique needs. In May 2023, they released their personal AI assistant - Pi.ai- designed to be empathetic and safe. One of the major challenges with Large Language Models (LLMs) is the concerns around safety, data privacy and the accuracy of the outputs. Inflection.AI has a goal of achieving high-quality, safe, and useful AI LLMs.

Inflection.AI is an integrated AI studio that does all its AI training and inference in-house and has built Inflection-1 - their in-house LLM using Pi.ai.

When you’re using LLMs such as ChatGPT, the responses don’t feel very personal to you specifically. Imagine having an AI assistant or companion that understands the way you think, is empathetic, and is useful to your daily needs.

This is Inflection-1.

How did Inflection.AI achieve this exactly? Using Pi.ai. A personal AI that brings you and technology closer. Pi is powered by the AI model Inflection-1. Inflection-1 was built to create a personal assistant that can talk to you, just like a human.

Inflection-1 is similar in size and capabilities to GPT-3.5, with some making remarks that is it better than GPT-3.5, Chinchilla, and LLaMA. It was trained using thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs on large datasets.

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Inflection-1 has a technical memo that summarizes the company's evaluations and compares the performance of Inflection-1 against other LLMs. This technical memo, states that Inflection-1 was the #1 model in its compute class, showing that it outperformed GPT-3.5, LLaMA, Chinchilla, and PaLM-540B. The company will also be releasing a technical memo, showing a comparison of one of their models against PaLM-2 and GPT-4.

For Inflection-1 to get to this point, it had to undergo a lot of different tasks to be befitting to unique needs. For example, solving everyday problems, to high-school exam questions - with a personal touch.

Sounds amazing right? Why aren't more people speaking about this?

Yes, Inflection-1 is performing very well when it comes to a wide range of tasks - however, it is not great with all tasks, such as coding.

Inflection-1 falls behind GPT-3.5 when it comes to coding tasks. However, that doesn’t stop the employees at Inflection.AI from continuing to improve their current LLM, so that it can be able to handle all tasks, from common sense to complex coding scripts.

Inflection-1 Features

So now we’ve understood where Inflection-1 falls behind. Let’s understand its key features.

Conversational Ability

The first feature is Inflection-1’s conversational ability. As we mentioned previously, the company aimed to create an AI assistant that has a unique bond with its users. Inflection-1 has amazing conversational ability, as it can understand and interact with the user in a human-like manner. Inflection-1 can comprehend a wide range of topics, allowing it to engage in more meaningful dialogue.

Personalized Experience

Inflection-1 has been designed to provide a personal experience, which is tailored to every user. The combination of leveraging large amounts of data and learning from user interactions has allowed Inflection-1 to adapt to specific needs and requirements, such as conversational styles. This increases the engagement and connection between the user and personal AI.

Human Emotions

Inflection-1 wants to be more than a personal AI. It wants to be a unique AI for every user. It aims to understand and be able to respond to the user based on their emotional state. Understanding the user's emotional state, Inflection-1 can provide support, encouragement, and companionship - that other AI systems do not give.

Inflection-1 is pushing the boundaries of the current state of AI, and showing the wider community and other competitors what AI can achieve. They aim to make this service available to everyone via an API, in which you can join the waitlist here. Opening up this technology to the wider community democratizes AI - allowing everybody to benefit from AI’s potential.

Nisha Arya is a Data Scientist, Freelance Technical Writer and Community Manager at KDnuggets. She is particularly interested in providing Data Science career advice or tutorials and theory based knowledge around Data Science. She also wishes to explore the different ways Artificial Intelligence is/can benefit the longevity of human life. A keen learner, seeking to broaden her tech knowledge and writing skills, whilst helping guide others.