I co-founded DeepMind. We sold it to Google for $500 million. Then I watched Google bureaucracy slowly suffocate everything we built. Inflection was my escape.
Pi is not an assistant. It's not a search engine. It's a conversation partner. The difference matters. People don't want a tool. They want something that listens.
We raised $1.3 billion and built one of the most powerful AI models in the world. Then I left to run Microsoft AI. People called it a failure. I call it a $650 million acqui-hire that changed the industry.
Reid Hoffman and I started Inflection together. A DeepMind co-founder and a LinkedIn co-founder building an AI company. The investor pitch meetings were very short.
The AI race isn't about who builds the smartest model. It's about who builds the model people actually want to talk to. Empathy is the moat, not benchmarks.