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Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM that it claims outperforms GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash while being 4x to 8x faster

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Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM that it claims outperforms GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash 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 neola…

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  1. 2026-10-20 01:45 · Techmeme
    Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM that it claims outperforms GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash while being 4x to 8x faster

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