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 obtainable 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 mentioned it has enhanced the appear and feel of the app branding with slight modifications by way of colours, illustrations and the Pi emblem.

“Customers have at all times beloved the glossy, clear aesthetic and the brand new model on iOS and Android apps continues that identification whereas including just a little further aptitude,” it mentioned in a weblog submit.

What to anticipate from the Pi Android app?

Out there 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.

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

Extra apparently, similar to ChatGPT, the Pi chatbot additionally helps voice interactions. Customers can merely communicate their minds and it could reply again, resulting in a back-and-forth dialog. At the moment, Inflection AI provides customers six Pi voice choices to select from and compares the expertise to chatting on a cellphone name.

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

For Inflection, the last word aim with Pi, which is brief for private intelligence, is to offer individuals an “empathetic, helpful and protected” 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 assist and steerage in a variety of conditions, Pi’s there to speak to you at midnight when the remainder of the world is asleep, once you wish to follow one other language, or once you want insightful ideas a couple of potential profession change,” the weblog submit reads.

Rising competitors

Since Android has over 3 billion world customers, the transfer to make Pi obtainable on the platform is predicted to broaden Inflection AI’s attain and provides the corporate entry to an even bigger person base. Nonetheless, it stays to be seen how properly it fares towards ChatGPT, which is already obtainable on Android and iOS and has a person base of almost 200 million. In October 2023 alone, the OpenAI chatbot noticed almost 1.7 billion cumulative visits throughout cellular 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 information and direct integration with the platform – which additionally boosts its attain.