The development of large language models (LLMs) is entering a pivotal phase with the emergence of diffusion-based architectures. These models, spearheaded by Inception Labs through its new Mercury ...

AI is moving faster and becoming more diverse than ever. The next competitive advantage may come from a new architecture.

Inception, a new Palo Alto-based company started by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel AI model based on “diffusion” technology. Inception calls it a ...

In a world where a casual prompt like “a cat surfing on a rainbow” can produce a jaw-dropping video clip, artificial intelligence is redefining creativity. From Hollywood visual effects to viral ...

All over the AI field, teams are unlocking new functionality by changing the ways that the models work. Some of this has to do with input compression and changing the memory requirements for LLMs, or ...

With so much money flooding into AI startups, it’s a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out. And if the idea is novel enough, it might be easier to get the resources you need as an ...

On Thursday, Inception Labs released Mercury Coder, a new AI language model that uses diffusion techniques to generate text faster than conventional models. Unlike traditional models that create text ...

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