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Forefront launched in 2022 as a free playground for chatting with GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Claude, and image models in one interface. It briefly trended on Hacker News and Product Hunt and built a free-tier audience before paid alternatives like Poe and Perplexity captured the market. Forefront's chat app stopped accepting new signups in mid-2024 and the company pivoted toward enterprise data products. The original consumer site no longer functions.
Inflection AI launched Pi in May 2023 as a 'kind and supportive' chatbot built on its own Inflection-2.5 model, raising $1.3B at a $4B valuation. In March 2024 Microsoft hired CEO Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder Karen Simonyan, and most research staff in a $650M licensing deal that left Inflection a hollowed-out shell. Pi still loads and answers messages, but new models are not in active training and the company pivoted to enterprise AI services.