🪦 Dead
Inflection AI / Pi
Acqui-hired · Acqui-hire · shut down March 19, 2024
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 10m 22d
- Cause of death
- Acqui-hire
- Killed by
- Microsoft
- Type
- App
A 'personal AI' focused on emotional intelligence and empathy, backed by $1.5B in funding. Effectively killed when Microsoft hired CEO Mustafa Suleyman and most of the engineering team, leaving Pi as an orphaned product.
Collateral damage: Users who spent months building a personal relationship with Pi lost all conversation history and emotional context when the team left.