ChatGPT rival Pi launches on Android

Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup based by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, simply introduced that its AI chatbot ‘Pi’ is now accessible as a devoted app on Android.

The transfer, which is predicted to offer billions of customers entry to Pi, comes as the newest effort from the year-old startup to tackle OpenAI’s extensively in style ChatGPT and different new AI assistants approaching the block, together with xAI’s now-rolling Grok and Anthropic’s Claude.

The corporate additionally stated it has enhanced the feel and appear of the app branding with slight modifications by way of colours, illustrations and the Pi brand.

“Customers have all the time beloved the smooth, clear aesthetic and the brand new model on iOS and Android apps continues that identification whereas including slightly further aptitude,” it stated in a weblog publish.

What to anticipate from the Pi Android app?

Obtainable in 35 nations, together with the U.S., to start with, the Pi Android app strives to ship an expertise much like the one customers have had on the iOS-specific model of the chatbot.

Primarily, they will ask any query about any subject to get instantaneous solutions, recommendations or suggestions from the assistant.

Extra apparently, identical to ChatGPT, the Pi chatbot additionally helps voice interactions. Customers can merely converse their minds and it will possibly reply again, resulting in a back-and-forth dialog. At present, Inflection AI offers customers six Pi voice choices to select from and compares the expertise to chatting on a telephone name.

The corporate launched Pi in Could and has since been working it on the Inflection-1 language mannequin. Nonetheless, a serious improve is on the playing cards with Inflection-2, which is claimed to be considerably extra succesful, demonstrating a lot improved factual information, higher stylistic management and dramatically improved reasoning. 

For Inflection, the last word objective with Pi, which is brief for private intelligence, is to offer folks an “empathetic, helpful and secure” companion that acts extra personally and colloquially than OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing or Google’s Bard. It’s this strategy of private and emotion AI that separates it from different gamers within the class.

“With the capability to offer 24/7 emotional help and steerage in a spread of conditions, Pi’s there to speak to you at midnight when the remainder of the world is asleep, once you wish to observe one other language, or once you want insightful ideas a few potential profession change,” the weblog publish reads.

Rising competitors

Since Android has over 3 billion international customers, the transfer to make Pi accessible on the platform is predicted to broaden Inflection AI’s attain and provides the corporate entry to an even bigger consumer base. Nonetheless, it stays to be seen how properly it fares towards ChatGPT, which is already accessible on Android and iOS and has a consumer base of almost 200 million. In October 2023 alone, the OpenAI chatbot noticed almost 1.7 billion cumulative visits throughout cell and net, with a complete of 193 million distinctive customers.

Past ChatGPT, Pi additionally has to compete with Google’s search-backed Bard, Anthropic’s constitutional AI assistant Claude and Elon Musk-founded xAI’s Grok, which additionally has a definite, sarcastic character. 

Notably, the latter additionally has the benefit of real-time X knowledge and direct integration with the platform – which additionally boosts its attain.