Stefano Ermon's Inception releases Mercury 2, a diffusion AI model designed to field questions from users significantly faster and more cheaply than its rivals (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Stefano Ermon's Inception releases Mercury 2, a diffusion AI model designed to field questions from users significantly faster and more cheaply than its rivals   —  Stefano Ermon helped pioneer technology that's used by popular artificial intelligence services to generate images and videos.