Inflection AI announces data portability capabilities and usage limits on its free assistant
Inflection AI, the creator of the personal AI assistant Pi, is introducing data portability for all users and message limits for its free tier as the company shifts its focus toward bringing its emotionally intelligent AI-powered assistant to the workplace.
About five months ago, just as Inflection AI announced that its co-founders and several other team members would depart Inflection to join Microsoft's AI division, the company also shared it would be shifting its focus to developing and commercializing an enterprise-grade product. In preparation for this new offering, Inflection has announced two new developments: the possibility to export Pi conversation data, and new message volume caps for users on the free service tier.
Inflection's data portability capabilities were developed collaboratively with the Data Transfer Initiative (DTI). The capabilities allow users to export their conversation data in a well-documented plain-text searchable format covered under a permissive license so users can export data to store in personal archives or for uploading to any other LLM that supports DTI's data portability framework. By making it straightforward for users to obtain a copy of their conversation data, Inflection hopes to set an example, and the company expects that the practice of letting users export copies of their data which can be uploaded into other services will become an industry standard.
As Inflection completes its transition towards offering solutions directed at enterprises, the company recognizes that asset and resource management will become paramount to avoid incurring additional expenses. For this reason, the company is announcing upcoming usage limits to its free Pi chatbot service. Since, according to internal analytics, most users turn to Pi for assistance in their workplace, Inflection came to see capping the free service was the best strategy to serve the majority of its users while maximizing its resources. The details on the new enterprise product and the usage limits are still forthcoming.
