# Inception Labs

> Commercial Mercury diffusion language models designed for parallel text and code generation.

## Why it is interesting

The clearest commercialization of parallel diffusion language generation in this cohort. Its production API differentiates it from academic NCM research; it has not announced adoption of Stanford's NCM.

## Profile

- **Latest funding:** Seed — $50M (November 6, 2025)
- **Latest known valuation:** Not publicly disclosed
- **Total disclosed equity funding:** $50M
- **Stage:** seed
- **Status:** private
- **Industries:** N/A
- **Coverage:** full
- **Last updated:** 2026-11-13
- **Latest funding investors:** Menlo Ventures, Mayfield, Innovation Endeavors, M12, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Investment, NVentures, Andrew Ng, Andrej Karpathy

## Key facts

- $50M seed announced November 6, 2025
- Menlo Ventures led, with Mayfield, M12, NVentures and others
- Mercury is diffusion-based; it is not an NCM commercial deployment

## Funding history

- Seed · $50M · November 6, 2025
  Source: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/mercury-refreshed

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**Last updated:** November 13, 2026

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