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Inception

We are a generative AI startup. Leveraging breakthrough AI research, we have developed a platform for training next-generation large language models powered by diffusion. Unlike existing auto-regressive models, which only output one token at a time, our models can output many tokens in parallel. Founded by Stanford CS faculty.

Palo Alto23 people
Latest round$50.0M · SeedNov 6, 2025
Listed Nov 2025AI

Team23

NameLocationLinksContact
Aditya Grover
Co-Founder
United States
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Stefano Ermon
Chief Executive Officer
Mountain View, California, United States
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Volodymyr Kuleshov
Co-Founder
San Francisco, California, United States
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Burzin Patel
Founding VP of Product
San Francisco Bay Area
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Kumar Chellapilla
VP of Engineering
Mountain View, California, United States
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Jessica Dodd
Head of Recruiting
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Lucas Bunzel
Head of Marketing
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Andrew S. Chen
Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco, California, United States
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Apoorv Saxena
Member of Technical Staff
Greater Bengaluru Area
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Brett Galkowski
Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco Bay Area
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David Li-Bland
Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco Bay Area
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Harkanwar Singh
Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco Bay Area
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Jeremy Irvin
Member of Technical Staff
Stanford, California, United States
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Lawrence Liu
Member of Technical Staff
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Qinqing Zheng
Member of Technical Staff
Mountain View, California, United States
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Samar Khanna
Founding Member of Technical Staff
Stanford, California, United States
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Yanis Miraoui
Founding Member of Technical Staff
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Brianna White
Operations
San Francisco Bay Area
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Navin Chaddha
Board Member
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Pranjal Datta
Machine Learning Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Tim Tully
Board Member
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Emily Liu
Machine Learning Engineer Intern
United States
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Firas T.
Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco Bay Area
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