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

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

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Mar 22, 2024
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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…

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