Stefano Ermon

CEO & Co-Founder — Inception Labs

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BA/MA from U. of Padova; PhD from Cornell. Associate Professor at Stanford. One of the original inventors of diffusion models — the technique behind Midjourney, DALL-E, and Sora. Co-founded Inception Labs to build Mercury, a diffusion-based LLM matching frontier quality at up to 10× speed. $50M seed from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Databricks, Snowflake.

Affiliations

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    Inception Labs — CEO & Co-Founder
    Formerly: Stanford University (Associate Professor); PhD Cornell