Inception Labs releases Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM claiming 1,000+ tok/s at GPT-6-level quality
StefanoErmon · x · 2026-10-20
Inception Labs (Stefano Ermon's team) releases Mercury 3, calling it the most capable diffusion LLM to date — claiming quality above GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running at 1,000+ tokens/sec.
Related event: Inception Launches Mercury 3: Diffusion LLM Hits 1000+ Tokens/s(8 posts)→
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