Inception releases Mercury 3, its flagship diffusion LLM

Inception launched Mercury 3 on October 19, 2026, calling it the most capable diffusion-based LLM to date, with a 1M-token context window and 1,068 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs. Launch pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, half the list price. The company claims it outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on benchmarks while running four to eight times faster.

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Inception releases Mercury 3, its flagship diffusion LLM

1M-token context window, up from 260K in Mercury 2.5
1,068 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs
Launch pricing $0.10/$0.35 per million tokens, 50% off list
Mercury 3 is over 40x larger than Mercury 1 in parameters

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