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Stefano Ermon

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Co-founder and CEO at Inception LabsAssociate 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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Current roles
Co-founder and CEO
Associate Professor
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Last editorial review: August 24, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26143,763116,47289,181Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26Jul 1, '26Sep 1, '26
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