Introducing Mercury 2, the fastest reasoning LLM

Announcing our $50 Million Seed Round

Inception has raised $50 million to build diffusion-based AI models aimed at faster, more efficient software development than traditional LLMs.

Date: Nov 6, 2025
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The New Stack: Get Ready for Diffusion LLMs

Inception Labs believes that diffusion-based text generation for LLMs will be an excellent fit for code generation and enterprise automation.

Date: Apr 14, 2025
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Introducing Mercury, the World’s First Commercial-Scale Diffusion Large Language Model.

We trained diffusion large language models that are up to 10x faster and cheaper than current LLMs, pushing the frontier of intelligence and speed for language models.

Date: Feb 26, 2025
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TechCrunch: Inception Emerges from Stealth

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” technology. Inception calls it a diffusion-based large language model, or a “DLM” for short.

Date: Feb 26, 2025
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