SCOUT· 37%38m·2026-09-18·TechnologyWhy Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon
As generative AI hits hardware and latency bottlenecks, Stanford professor, diffusion pioneer, and Inception co-founder and CEO Stefano Ermon is betting on a radical new architecture. Stefano joins Sarah Guo to talk about Inception, and how his team is applying diffusion architecture beyond images and video into…
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“Diffusion for text is such a contrarian bet I love that parallel token generation fixes the latency bottleneck. Makes total sense for voice agents. Efficiency really is the next frontier.”
“Nice line of research. I wonder if they got rid of tokenizer also.”
“Rootin for this particular group 🙂! As an academic, I want to acknowledge Stefano's (and the lab's) work has kept this elegant side of the field (e.g. the mathematics of generative modeling) marching forward during a period where a great d…”
“Wow so much byte-sized information infused in this session - while keeping fundamentals simple and understandable. Thanks much for the awesomeness! 🎉”
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