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Ermon was excited by the result and wanted to test how diffusion language models would perform at larger scales.
Stefano Ermon · Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon · 18 Sep 2026
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“Then X-Faster compared to the auto-aggressive model and so that felt very very exciting and I really wanted to see what happens if you scale up, if you train bigger models and so I started Inception,”5:41Report a misattribution
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