The fall of Inflection makes me more skeptical of "scaling laws"

22,000 H100 GPUs weren't enough to save the well-funded startup.

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Deepmind and then Inflection, took a new job at Microsoft this week. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

On Tuesday, Microsoft hired a cofounder and “most” of the employees of the two-year-old AI startup Inflection. It was only nine months ago that Inflection raised $1.3 billion in a round led by Microsoft. As Techcrunch put…