Inflection, an AI startup aiming to create "personal AI for everyone", has announced a new large language model dubbed Inflection-2 that beats Google's PaLM 2.

Inflection-2 was trained on over 5,000 NVIDIA GPUs to reach 1.025 quadrillion floating point operations (FLOPs), putting it in the same league as PaLM 2 Large. However, early benchmarks show Inflection-2 outperforming Google's model on tests of reasoning ability, factual knowledge, and stylistic prowess.

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