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Inception launches Mercury 3 diffusion LLM: 1M context, 1,068 tokens/sec, $0.20/$0.70 per 1M tokens
Inception released Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM with a 1M-token context window that it says runs at 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs. Pricing is $0.20 per 1M input and $0.70 per 1M output tokens, with a 50% launch discount. Inception claims quality on par with or better than GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at 4–8x the speed.
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