Celeris
United StatesModel developer
San Francisco lab building ultra-fast diffusion LLMs.
What they do
Celeris builds diffusion-based language models that generate text in parallel rather than one token at a time, claiming near-frontier quality at roughly 15x the speed of comparable autoregressive models. Its flagship model is Celeris-1. Founded by Tom Hamer and Jesse Clark (ex-Marqo), backed by Lightspeed Ventures.
Models they develop
1 in this directory.