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 Mercury 2, the fastest reasoning LLM and first reasoning dLLM. Mercury 2 delivers 5x faster performance while reducing the latency and cost barriers that have limited real‑world deployment of reasoning systems.
Inception Raises $50M to Power Diffusion LLMs, Increasing LLM Speed and Efficiency by up to 10X and Unlocking Real-Time, Accessible AI Applications
Inception, the company pioneering diffusion large language models (dLLMs), today announced it has raised $50 million in funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Mayfield, Innovation Endeavors, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), M12 (Microsoft’s venture capital fund), Snowflake Ventures, and Databricks Investment.
Inventor of Diffusion Technology Underlying Sora and Midjourney Launches Inception to Bring Advanced Reasoning AI Everywhere, from Wearables to Data Centers
Inception today introduced the first-ever commercial-scale diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs), a new approach to AI that significantly improves models’ speed, efficiency, and capabilities. Stemming from research at Stanford, Inception’s dLLMs achieve up to 10x faster inference speeds and 10x lower inference costs while unlocking advanced capabilities in reasoning, controllable generation, and multi-modal data analysis. Inception’s technology enables enterprises to deploy intelligent agents and real-time decision-making systems at scale, setting a new standard for AI performance.
