Stefano Ermon is the cofounder of Inception Labs and an associate professor at Stanford. Inception is developing a new type of AI models called Diffusion LLMs. Stefano's favorite book: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Author: Italo Calvino)

Introduction

What are autoregressive LLMs and how do they work

How diffusion LLMs rethink generation

The ceiling of autoregressive LLMs: cost, latency, reliability