Inception Labs' Mercury 3: diffusion LLM hits 1000 tokens/sec, matching Luna/Haiku
Ok_Knowledge_8259 · reddit · 2026-10-20
Inception Labs released Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM generating at 1000 tokens/sec while matching small-model rivals like Google's Luna and Anthropic's Haiku. The poster sees it as evidence that diffusion LLMs are finally taking off.
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