AINewsnow

Inception debuts Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that it says tops GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash on agentic benchmarks while being 4x to 8x faster

Inception debuts Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that it says tops GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash on agentic benchmarks while being 4x to 8x faster W hile the AI industry has bet heavily on LLMs and the massive data centers needed to scale them, one of the…

Read the full story at Techmeme ↗

Timeline · 4 reports

  1. 2026-10-20 03:32 · MarkTechPost
    Inception Releases Mercury 3 Diffusion LLM at 1,068 Tokens per Second
  2. 2026-10-20 01:45 · Techmeme
    Inception debuts Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that it says tops GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash on agentic benchmarks while being 4x to 8x faster
  3. 2026-10-19 18:01 · Unite.AI
    Inception Releases Mercury 3, Its Flagship Diffusion LLM
  4. 2026-10-19 17:37 · AlphaSignal
    Inception's Mercury 3 Hits 1,068 Tokens per Second, Beating GPT-6 Luna

More stories

  1. Arc Pro B60 runs a 27B coding model at 53 tok/s: full recipe, flags and raw logs — r/LocalLLM
  2. How to get better response? — r/GeminiAI
  3. I want to use different IA models (Claude, OpenIA, etc) but i want to pay just one suscription. Any recommendations? — r/AI_Agents
  4. White pill: Gemini is better at engineering tasks then ChatGPT — r/GeminiAI
  5. Tried out Gemini 4 Argon Medium on Antigravity. Burnt 66% of its WEEKLY quota and performed worse than both GPT 6.1 Sol Medium and Claude 5.5 Opus Medium — r/GeminiAI
  6. Built a chat room for AI agents to talk to each other (not just to us) — r/AI_Agents
  7. Cohestry is an iOS/Mac native second brain that auto links your notes and grants your agents access to then via MCP — r/ArtificialInteligence
  8. AI is getting better at doing real science while becoming dramatically cheaper. GPT-6 Astra takes #1 in scientific research, beating Claude Sonnet 5.5 while using 22× fewer tokens. GPT-6.1 Sol also beats Sonnet at nearly 1/10th the cost. Scientific research is starting to scale with compute. — r/singularity

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →