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Inception

Inception creates the world's fastest, most efficient AI models. Today's autoregression LLMs generate tokens sequentially, which makes them painfully slow and expensive. Inception's diffusion-based LLMs (dLLMs) generate answers in parallel. They are 10X faster and more efficient, making it possible for any business to create instant, in-the-flow AI solutions. Inception's founders helped invent diffusion technology, which is the industry standard for image and video AI, and the company is the first to apply it to language.

Key Contact
Name
Stefano Ermon
Title
Co-Founder & CEO
Funding Events

Date
Amount
Type
Investors
Valuation
11/06/25 $50,000,000 Venture Databricks
Innovation Endeavors
M12
Mayfield
Menlo Ventures
NVentures
Snowflake Ventures
undisclosed