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The startup's new release swaps the standard text-generation architecture for a diffusion approach, promising much faster output at the same price.
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Inception just dropped Mercury 3, a model 4-8x faster than Luna / Haiku for the same price and benchmark performance. In real world use, OpenRouter shows that it’s effectively 2-4x faster and 2-4x cheaper effective price. The time for diffusion language models is finally here!Read original on X
Inception launched Mercury 3, claiming 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs and a 1 million token context window.Read original on X
Inception launches Mercury 3 with big speed claims for diffusion models
Inception launches Mercury 3 with big speed claims for diffusion models
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