Inception launches Mercury 2.5: diffusion LLM with 40% intelligence jump, 1,100+ tokens/sec
volokuleshov · x · 2026-09-10
Inception (Stefano Ermon's team) launched Mercury 2.5, billed as the most capable diffusion LLM: a 40% intelligence jump over Mercury 2, running at over 1,100 tokens/sec on widely available NVIDIA GPUs. Available today via their API, OpenRouter, and Baseten.
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