Inception Launches Mercury 2, the Fastest Reasoning LLM — 5x ...
1 day ago · Inception, the company behind the first commercial diffusion large language models (dLLMs), today announced the launch of Mercury 2, the fastest reasoning LLM and first reasoning …
Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for ...
Nov 6, 2025 · The leader of the project is Stanford professor Stefano Ermon, whose research focuses on diffusion models — which generate outputs through iterative refinement rather than word-by-word. …
FinancialContent - Inception Launches Mercury 2, the Fastest ...
8 hours ago · While the AI industry spends billions squeezing incremental speed from token-by-token autoregressive models, Inception’s diffusion based generation is the architectural breakthrough that …
Professor at Stanford University; Founder at Inception
1 day ago · Transcript I'm Stefano Ermon, CEO and Co founder of Inception. Today we are releasing Mercury two, the first diffusion reasoning allow lamb and the fastest reasoning alarm in the world.
This Professor-Turned-Entrepreneur Raised $50 Million To ...
Stefano Ermon, an Italian-born scientist, Stanford professor, and co-founder of Inception, is firmly in the second camp. Stefano was working on the foundations of generative AI long before it became a …
AI Image Pioneer’s Startup Unveils Tech to Speed Up Chats ...
11 hours ago · Stefano Ermon helped pioneer technology that’s used by popular artificial intelligence services to generate images and videos. Now his startup, Inception, is vying to change how AI …
Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model
Feb 26, 2025 · Inception, a new Palo Alto-based company started by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel AI model based on “diffusion” …