Command R vs. Inflection-1

Overview

With an author of the "Attention is All You Need" paper as one of its co-founders, Cohere's LLM is built with a focus on enterprise. Products based on its LLM include semantic search, embeddings, and text generation.

Cohere is an AI platform for the enterprise specializing in large language model-powered offerings. Its flagship offering is its Command R model (and the research open weights Command R+) which offer scalable and high-performance models competitive with offerings by companies such as OpenAI and Mistral. Command R+ in particular is designed to peform well on RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) applications, multilingual applications, and tool use.

Initial release: 2021-11-15

Reference

https://docs.cohere.com/docs/the-cohere-platform

Further Reading

Overview

Inflection-1 is an LLM introduced by Inflection AI, a startup founded by Reid Hoffman and Mustafa Suleyman. Inflection-1 powers Pi, an AI assistant intended to be a companion chatbot, tracking longer conversations with its users and adapting based on those conversations to each user. On their benchmarks, Inflection-1 outperforms GPT-3.5, LLaMA, Chinchilla, and PaLM-540B.

Initial release: 2023-06-22

Reference

https://inflection.ai/inflection-1

Further Reading

• https://pi.ai