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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 obtainable as a devoted app on Android.
The transfer, which is predicted to present billions of customers entry to Pi, comes as the most recent effort from the year-old startup to tackle OpenAI’s broadly widespread 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 appear and feel of the app branding with slight modifications by way of colours, illustrations and the Pi brand.
“Customers have at all times beloved the smooth, clear aesthetic and the brand new model on iOS and Android apps continues that identification whereas including a bit of additional aptitude,” it mentioned in a weblog put up.
What to anticipate from the Pi Android app?
Obtainable in 35 nations, together with the U.S., to start with, the Pi Android app strives to ship an expertise much like the one customers have had on the iOS-specific model of the chatbot.
Basically, they will ask any query about any subject to get immediate solutions, recommendations or suggestions from the assistant.
Extra apparently, similar 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 present, Inflection AI offers customers six Pi voice choices to select from and compares the expertise to chatting on a telephone name.
The corporate launched Pi in Might and has since been working it on the Inflection-1 language mannequin. Nonetheless, a significant improve is on the playing cards with Inflection-2, which is alleged to be considerably extra succesful, demonstrating a lot improved factual data, higher stylistic management and dramatically improved reasoning.
For Inflection, the final word purpose with Pi, which is brief for private intelligence, is to present individuals an “empathetic, helpful and secure” companion that acts extra personally and colloquially than OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing or Google’s Bard. It’s this strategy of private and emotion AI that separates it from different gamers within the class.
“With the capability to offer 24/7 emotional assist and steering in a spread of conditions, Pi’s there to speak to you at midnight when the remainder of the world is asleep, if you wish to observe one other language, or if you want insightful ideas a couple of potential profession change,” the weblog put up reads.
Rising competitors
Since Android has over 3 billion world customers, the transfer to make Pi obtainable 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 nicely it fares in opposition to ChatGPT, which is already obtainable 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 internet, 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 persona.
Notably, the latter additionally has the benefit of real-time X information and direct integration with the platform – which additionally boosts its attain.