Post-Cutoff

Founder

Stefano Ermon

CEO and co-founder, Inception; Stanford professor, as of 20 October 2026. Source: thedeepview.com

Leads Inception, maker of the Mercury diffusion LLMs, the main commercial alternative to token-by-token decoding.

In the news

1 event on Post-Cutoff name Stefano Ermon, newest first.

  1. Model releases 111 days after the cutoff

    Inception releases Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM with a 1M-token context that it says beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at 1,000+ tokens/s