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Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur best known for co-founding LinkedIn, and a partner at Greylock, who has been an influential backer and board presence across Silicon Valley. He was one of OpenAI's earliest funders and, in 2022, co-founded Inflection AI, the consumer-chatbot company whose team was later absorbed by Microsoft. He is a vocal optimist about AI's benefits, co-authoring books on the subject, and a prominent Democratic political donor. He continues to invest in and advise AI companies through Greylock and his own ventures.
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Inflection raises $1.3 billion for a personal AI
The round valued the year-old startup at $4 billion and was earmarked largely for a planned 22,000-H100 GPU cluster built with Microsoft and CoreWeave.
Money & business · Compute & infrastructure
Inflection AI launches Pi, a personal AI chatbot
The company, co-founded by DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, positioned Pi as a supportive companion rather than a productivity tool.
Models & capabilities
Inflection AI launches out of stealth
The company, structured as a public benefit corporation, announced Pi, a conversational assistant it described as a supportive companion rather than a search or productivity tool.
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