
Volodymyr KuleshovFounder
Inception Labs
Co-founder and Chief Scientist
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Researcher · Academic · Founder · Executive

Co-founder and CEO at Inception Labs
Associate Professor at Stanford University
Ermon helped develop a foundation of modern image generators: models that learn to create data by gradually removing noise. He later co-founded Inception, whose Mercury models apply a similar idea to generating text faster than conventional language models.
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