Inception Mercury
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Inception
- C · CEO & Politics
- Stefano Ermon
- D · Date
- 2025
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- No free tier
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud only (proprietary)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Stefano Ermon (CEO and co-founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- No longer on Inception's API model list
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 2/10 · Significance 4/10 → 3.70
- R · What Makes It Special
- Diffusion LLM (dLLM): generates text in parallel rather than token by token, which Inception says makes it up to 10x faster and more efficient than conventional LLMs. Part of the Feb 2025 launch of the first commercial-scale dLLMs.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @_inception_ai
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary LLM from Inception, released 2025.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“Inception Mercury.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/inception-mercury.html