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Stefano Ermon

Researcher

Stanford professor and a co-inventor of the diffusion methods behind image generation. Co-founded Inception in 2024 with former students Aditya Grover and Volodymyr Kuleshov to apply diffusion to language, and runs it as CEO.

Known for Diffusion models; Inception; Mercury diffusion LLM

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  1. 2024 – now
    Inception, Co-founder and CEO
    Other substrates
    Sources Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text TechCrunch 2025-11-06
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    Stanford University, Professor
    Other substrates
    Sources Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text TechCrunch 2025-11-06

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Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text TechCrunch 2025-11-06