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Inception Labs

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Rocket Ship Rating: 79 out of 100

Mercury is a new class of diffusion LLMs that matches the quality of speed optimized frontier models, with sub-300ms time to first token, 5-7x higher throughput, and up to 70% lower cost per task.

Also known as INCEPTION AI, INC.

  • AI models & AI infrastructure
  • AI native
Status
Operatingas of 2026-09-20
Business model
B2B
Headquarters
Redwood City, CA, United States
Customers
developers, enterprises
Legal name
INCEPTION AI, INC.
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Record updated 20 September 2026

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Inception is an AI research and product company. We’re building diffusion-based language models for production applications.

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