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

Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM it claims 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 n…

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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-10-20 04:35 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Mercury 3 Does 1,068 Tokens/Second With a Diffusion LLM — Here's the Architecture Trick (and How to Try It)
  2. 2026-10-20 03:32 · MarkTechPost
    Inception Releases Mercury 3 Diffusion LLM at 1,068 Tokens per Second
  3. 2026-10-20 01:45 · Techmeme
    Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM it claims tops GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5, and GLM-5.3 Flash on agentic benchmarks while being 4x to 8x faster
  4. 2026-10-19 18:01 · Unite.AI
    Inception Releases Mercury 3, Its Flagship Diffusion LLM
  5. 2026-10-19 17:37 · AlphaSignal
    Inception's Mercury 3 Hits 1,068 Tokens per Second, Beating GPT-6 Luna

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