Inception Claims Mercury 3 Beats Luna, Haiku
Inception says its diffusion model Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Haiku 5.5 at up to eight times the speed, but lists higher.
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Company — Inception, also known as Inception Labs, develops diffusion-based language models under the Mercury name. Its work applies parallel generation to coding, language and voice products, with a focus on inference speed and developer applications.
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Inception, also known as Inception Labs, develops diffusion-based language models under the Mercury name. Its work applies parallel generation to coding, language and voice products, with a focus on inference speed and developer applications.
- Model family
- Mercury
- Approach
- Diffusion language models
- Focus
- Language; coding; voice; inference
- Reference
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Introduces Mercury 3
Inception announces a new generation of its diffusion language model family.
Source: Inception ↗Introduces Mercury Voice
The company expands the Mercury portfolio with a voice-focused offering.
Source: Inception ↗Brings Mercury 2 to Azure Foundry
Mercury becomes available through Microsoft’s model platform, extending enterprise distribution.
Source: Inception ↗Introduces Mercury Edit 2
The company releases a new version of its coding and editing model.
Source: Inception ↗Introduces Mercury 2
The model family advances with a new diffusion language model release.
Source: Inception ↗Discloses $50M financing
Inception reports $50 million in financing led by Menlo Ventures. This is investment capital, not model revenue or ARR.
Source: Inception ↗Introduces Mercury
Inception launches the first Mercury diffusion language models.
Source: Inception ↗
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