Stefano Ermon helped pioneer technology that’s used by popular artificial intelligence services to generate images and videos. Now his startup, Inception, is vying to change how AI handles text.
Inception is set to release Mercury 2, an AI model that’s designed to field questions from users significantly faster and more cheaply than alternative services. Where text models typically process tokens – or units of data – sequentially, Mercury 2 relies on diffusion models to handle multiple tokens simultaneously.
