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So sounds like the real news is that Microsoft basically acquihired the Inflection founding team?
by kcorbitt 3y ago
So sounds like the real news is that Microsoft basically acquihired the Inflection founding team?
- nexuist 3y agoI hope one day we can drop the corporate facade so these blog posts can be two to three sentences of "Our company sucked. Microsoft wanted to give me a fuck ton of money. I decided to take it. Some other guy is in charge now. Good luck!"
- gcnnbdff 3y agoA lot of people don’t know this but all these VC valuations are fake, they had this planned years ago to fake growth.
- f6v 3y agoMaybe someone try training an LLM to do just that.
- bee_rider 3y agoDoes getting acquhired by MS imply your company sucked? There are things I like about where I’m at but if MS really wanted to they could send enough dump trucks full of cash to ruin the local traffic situation. Is it worth staying at a place if you can’t even get out of the driveway to get to your favorite little cafe?
- hinkley 3y agoIt means your people are good and your product isn’t. That requires a kind of cognitive dissonance that some people would call “suckage”. Certainly had that conversation many, many times. Just be careful you aren’t Boeing buying McDonell Douglas, where the cut throat culture infected the host and killed it, rather than being muted and managed out.
- dbish 3y agoEh I think some startup culture injected into Microsoft is a good thing, whatever that might mean. Have to shake things up
- nyokodo 3y ago> startup culture injected into Microsoft is a good thing Companies like Microsoft have consumed countless startups and startup employees over the decades and are practiced at digesting them without being changed all that much.
- dbish 3y agoIt’s a bit different when you’re replacing or creating the head of a division since they’ll replace their own lieutenants and onwards down
- RockyMcNuts 3y agodidn't really get acquihired, which would be if MSFT bought inflection, instead it seems MSFT hired away a team, probably with options and whatnot.
- aeternum 3y agoIronically, AI will probably help to provide this. Could probably do it now with a browser plugin and the right llm prompt. Perhaps call it the un-BSifier.
- OtherShrezzing 3y agoThe prompt "summarise this in 2-3 sentences in the least charitable way possible" returned the following on chat.mistral.ai >Inflection is changing its business model again, now trying to sell its AI services to commercial clients after realizing people can't replicate their AI model. They're losing two co-founders to Microsoft and bringing in some new CEO to run the show. They claim nothing will change for users, but who knows what will happen with all these changes going on.
- jack_riminton 3y agoYou could set this up as a service on unbullshitthis.com
- kookamamie 3y agoHear, hear! There is a market for a no-bs-happenings.com.
- duxup 3y agoI think we can assume almost all acquisitions are "this cash is better than continuing to operate as we were.... make of that what you will".
- guytv 3y agoI asked ChatGPT to summarize, this is what it came up with: * Inflection shifts focus to AI studio business, developing custom AI models for commercial use. * Plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Microsoft Azure, with plans for other cloud platforms. * API launch soon, sign-ups for early access open. * Co-founders Mustafa and Karén to start Microsoft AI, leaving Inflection. * Sean White appointed new CEO; Reid Hoffman remains on board. * No immediate changes to Pi service; privacy and data policies unchanged.
- rllearneratwork 3y agois it really a win on MSFT part though?
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- vineyardmike 3y agoAbsolutely. Pi (their chat bot) is pretty nice to talk to. It’s really good with the whole para-social aspect of chatting without being weird. Is that useful? Maybe for research, probably less so for a direct product.Microsoft can probably get something useful from that. More importantly though, Microsoft is now hosting a whole suite of LLMs on Azure. This is the lesson they learned after OpenAI had that acute leadership crisis. This is another hedge against OpenAI. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Microsoft start distancing themselves from OpenAI in the future.
- turnsout 3y agoPi is nice to talk to because unlike other chatbots, it always, always, always asks a follow-up question. I'd love to see the system prompt. That's what's driving their claim of high engagement—the bot just keeps drilling you with questions, and for some people, the bait is irresistible.
- petre 3y agoNot only follow up questions, but it also gives straight answers without bs, lecturing the user, claiming the model is somehow limited or flat out refusals which are Gemini's specialty.
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- zooq_ai 3y agoIt is not. Mustafa Suleyman is the ultimate AI grifter. He has ZERO technical skills. ZERO hardcore STEM background. He was just friends with Demis at the right time and road that hype train. At Google he had a similar role VP of AI products or something and he contributed nothing (except all the garbage ethics, safety crap that didn't help google, probably kneecapped it actually) This is Satya Nadella's worst AI move yet.
- telltruth 3y agoThey aquihired 3 people who didn’t do any technical work. Nadella miscalculated big time here.
- jonny_eh 3y agoNot if it kneecaps a key competitor.
- verticalscaler 3y agoThat's right, they could be doing no work at Google !
- ipsum2 3y agoFortune reported that Microsoft hired most employees from Inflection.
- m_ke 3y agoRight, Karen Simonyan is not technical at all...