Inception Offers YC Startups 250B Free Tokens to Push Diffusion LLMs
volokuleshov · x · 2026-08-14
Inception (formerly Mercury) announced at a YC event that it is offering YC-backed startups 250 billion free tokens and higher production rate limits. Companies will also get direct access to Inception's FDE team and early access to new models.
The initiative aims to remove cost barriers for developers, encouraging them to experiment with their diffusion language models in production environments for faster inference speeds.
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