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Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup based by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, simply introduced that its AI chatbot ‘Pi’ is now accessible as a devoted app on Android.
The transfer, which is predicted to offer billions of customers entry to Pi, comes as the most recent effort from the year-old startup to tackle OpenAI’s broadly common ChatGPT and different new AI assistants approaching the block, together with xAI’s now-rolling Grok and Anthropic’s Claude.
The corporate additionally mentioned it has enhanced the feel and appear of the app branding with slight adjustments by way of colours, illustrations and the Pi emblem.
“Users have always loved the sleek, clean aesthetic and the new brand on iOS and Android apps continues that identity while adding a little extra flair,” it mentioned in a weblog submit.
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What to anticipate from the Pi Android app?
Out there in 35 international locations, together with the U.S., to start with, the Pi Android app strives to ship an expertise just like the one customers have had on the iOS-specific model of the chatbot.
Primarily, they’ll ask any query about any matter to get on the spot solutions, options or ideas from the assistant.
Extra apparently, identical to ChatGPT, the Pi chatbot additionally helps voice interactions. Customers can merely communicate their minds and it may well reply again, resulting in a back-and-forth dialog. At the moment, Inflection AI offers customers six Pi voice choices to select from and compares the expertise to chatting on a cellphone name.
The corporate launched Pi in Could and has since been working it on the Inflection-1 language mannequin. Nonetheless, a serious improve is on the playing cards with Inflection-2, which is claimed to be considerably extra succesful, demonstrating a lot improved factual data, higher stylistic management and dramatically improved reasoning.
For Inflection, the final word objective with Pi, which is brief for private intelligence, is to offer individuals an “empathetic, useful and safe” companion that acts extra personally and colloquially than OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing or Google’s Bard. It’s this method of non-public and emotion AI that separates it from different gamers within the class.
“With the capacity to provide 24/7 emotional support and guidance in a range of situations, Pi’s there to talk to you at midnight when the rest of the world is asleep, when you want to practice another language, or when you need insightful thoughts about a potential career change,” the weblog submit reads.
Rising competitors
Since Android has over 3 billion international customers, the transfer to make Pi accessible on the platform is predicted to develop Inflection AI’s attain and provides the corporate entry to an even bigger consumer base. Nonetheless, it stays to be seen how properly it fares towards ChatGPT, which is already accessible on Android and iOS and has a consumer base of almost 200 million. In October 2023 alone, the OpenAI chatbot noticed almost 1.7 billion cumulative visits throughout cellular and net, with a complete of 193 million distinctive customers.
Past ChatGPT, Pi additionally has to compete with Google’s search-backed Bard, Anthropic’s constitutional AI assistant Claude and Elon Musk-founded xAI’s Grok, which additionally has a definite, sarcastic character.
Notably, the latter additionally has the benefit of real-time X information and direct integration with the platform – which additionally boosts its attain.
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