Company
Inception Labs
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.
- Status
- Operatingas of 2026-09-20
- Business model
- B2B
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, CA, United States
- Customers
- developers, enterprises
- Legal name
- INCEPTION AI, INC.
Record updated 20 September 2026
About
Inception is an AI research and product company. We’re building diffusion-based language models for production applications.