A cold take on Microsoft + Inflection AI.
• Microsoft is hedging its bet on OpenAI by investing in Mistral and acquihiring most of Inflection AI.
• Despite raising $1.3B in funding, Inflection seems to be a struggling “me too” which has now pivoted away from chatbots to now build enterprise APIs.
• The CEO, chief scientist and others jumping ship to Microsoft while Microsoft offers to make investors whole is effectively the startup failing.
The AI space is speed running a tech generation