Company Growth Benchmarks

Pre-seed funding (WILCO)

Mustafa Suleyman joins Greylock (precursor event)

Initial major equity raise — $225M

Declared as public benefit corporation

First external funding (Series A, dec 2009)

Initial funding pledge announced (~$1B)

First prototype completed

Move to Rincon Center office and early hires

Pi chatbot launched publicly (beta)

Inflection-1 model powering Pi announced and API access opened

Raised $1.3B in financing (led by Microsoft, Nvidia and others)

$4,000,000,000

Announced plan to build massive GPU cluster (22,000 H100 GPUs)

Inflection-1 benchmark claims vs peers

Ranked among top-funded generative AI startups

$4,000,000,000

Committed to independent testing in White House AI pledge

Headcount reported (~35 employees)