PYMNTS.com March 10, 2025
A Silicon Valley startup founded by professors from Stanford, UCLA and Cornell has created a new type of large language model that they say is faster, cheaper and higher quality than existing models.
Inception Labs developed diffusion large language models that use a technique normally applied to images, audio and video — and deployed it to text. They claim the result was an LLM that was five to 10 times faster and five to 10 times cheaper while performing competitively with top artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Companies today struggle with scaling generative AI in part due to the cost of deploying it, which was why Chinese AI startup DeepSeek became wildly popular for its low-cost, open-source LLMs that could hold...