Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion LLM claims 4-8x speed, beating GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-21
- Inception has released Mercury 3, calling it the most capable diffusion language model released so far.
- The company claims it runs 4-8x faster than GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5, beating both on 8 of 12 benchmarks.
- No independent tests exist yet, so the claims remain unverified.
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