Inception Launches Mercury 2, the Fastest Reasoning LLM — 5x Faster Than Leading Speed-Optimized LLMs, with Dramatically Lower Inference Cost

Inception, the company behind the first commercial diffusion large language models (dLLMs), today announced the launch of ...

AI Image Pioneer’s Startup Unveils Technology to Speed Up Chats

Stefano Ermon helped pioneer technology that’s used by popular artificial intelligence services to generate images and videos ...
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Low-latency AI model pioneer Inception nabs $50M

Inception AI Inc., a company building ultra-fast large language models based on the diffusion technique, said today it has raised $50 million in new funding led by Menlo Ventures. Mayfield, Innovation ...
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Inception Raises $50M for Diffusion LLMs

PALO ALTO, CA. – November 6, 2025 – Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) company Inception today announced it has raised $50 million in funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with ...