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Inflection AI: The $1.3 Billion Bet on Personal AI Before the Team Was Reassembled Elsewhere
Inflection AI's $1.3 billion 2023 round financed a vertically integrated personal-AI company with its own giant compute cluster. Less than a year later, Microsoft hired much of the founding team, turning the deal into a cautionary case about financing talent, models, and product at once.
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