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Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon

aired Sep 18, 2026 · 38.0m
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Summary

Today, I'm here with Stefano Erman, who is a longtime Stanford professor and now co-founder and CEO of Inception.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, models, think, including: Today, I'm here with Stefano Erman, who is a longtime Stanford professor and now co-founder and CEO of Inception.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Stefano has an extraordinarily broad body of work around generative modeling, but is especially well known as one of the fathers of diffusion
  2. 02I've been doing research in generative models for like basically my entire career
  3. 03I started at Stanford in 2014 as an assistant professor and I was working on building generative models
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