What does Inception Labs do?
Inception (Inception Labs) is a Palo Alto-based AI research company building diffusion large language models (dLLMs) that generate text and code in parallel, delivering up to 10x faster inference and lower cost than traditional autoregressive LLMs. Its Mercury model family targets latency-sensitive, real-time applications. Founded in 2024 by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon with Aditya Grover and Volodymyr Kuleshov.