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title: "Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM it claims is \"comparable to Luna and Haiku models\" but 4x to 8x faster, generating ~1,000 tokens per second (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/inception-launches-mercury-3-a-diffusion-based-llm-it-claims-is-f5fc1d29
published: 2026-10-20T01:45:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM it claims is "comparable to Luna and Haiku models" but 4x to 8x faster, generating \~1,000 tokens per second (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-20 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/inception-launches-mercury-3-a-diffusion-based-llm-it-claims-is-f5fc1d29

Jason Hiner / The Deep View : Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM it claims is "comparable to Luna and Haiku models" but 4x to 8x faster, generating \~1,000 tokens per second — W — hile the AI industry has bet heavily on LLMs and the massive data centers needed to scale them …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261019/p51#a261019p51)

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