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# Stefano Ermon

CEO and co-founder, Inception; Stanford professor (as of 2026-10-20; source: https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/why-inception-s-mercury-3-upends-ai-economics).

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

## In the news (1 event, newest first)

- 2026-10-19: [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](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-19-inception-mercury-3/), Model releases. Diffusion LLMs are the main alternative to autoregressive decoding.

Profile checked 2026-10-20.