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Inception

Inception is a Palo Alto AI research company that builds diffusion-based language models — its Mercury family — designed to deliver frontier-quality text generation at significantly higher speed than standard autoregressive LLMs. Its models are API-compatible with existing LLM workflows and are aimed at production use cases including coding, enterprise search, customer support, and voice.

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    Why different? Inception is a Palo Alto AI research company that builds diffusion-based language models — its Mercury family — designed to deliver frontier-quality text generation at significantly higher speed than standard autoregressive LLMs. Its models are API-compatible with existing LLM workflows and are aimed at production use cases including coding, enterprise search, customer support, and voice.

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