Inception (@_inception_ai) — Twitter Score 25 out of 1000

Inception is an AI research and product company that co-founded by Stefano Ermon as CEO, Aditya Grover as CTO, and Volodymyr Kuleshov, focused on building diffusion-based large language models. Inception's Twitter Score is 25 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #38,481 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.

Inception was co-founded by Stefano Ermon, Aditya Grover, and Volodymyr Kuleshov to develop a new class of large language models built on diffusion architectures. Its Mercury family is described as the first commercially available family of diffusion large language models, distinguishing it from the transformer-based approaches that dominate the field.

Inception announced $50 million in funding on November 6, 2025, in a round led by Menlo Ventures. Additional backers include Mayfield, Innovation Endeavors, NVentures, M12, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Investment, Andrew Ng, and Andrej Karpathy. The Mercury models are accessible via Inception's own API as well as through Amazon Bedrock, OpenRouter, and Poe. Inception has been active on the platform since 2025, and its account has accumulated 18,487 followers as of August 2026 across 271 posts. Inception has been mentioned by 17 accounts, with 19 total mentions.

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The accounts that follow Inception include 113 founders, 31 angel investors, 36 influencers and 2 VCs. Among them are Marc Andreessen, 6529, Andrew Kang, mikedemarais.eth, Matthew Graham and Imran.