OpenRouter lists Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion model at 50% launch discount
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Modal@modalOfficialInception releases Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM running at 1,000+ tokens per secondAIModal congratulates Inception on Mercury 3, which it says has more than 40 times the parameters of Mercury 1 while running at 1,000+ tokens per second. Quoted post from Stefano Ermon says Mercury 3 is the company's most powerful model and the most intelligent diffusion LLM released so far. It says Mercury 3 outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Haiku 5.5 on quality while keeping that speed.
OpenRouter@OpenRouterOfficialInception's Mercury 3 diffusion model launches on OpenRouter at 1,000+ tokens per secondAIOpenRouter says Inception's new diffusion model Mercury 3 is live, generating over 1,000 tokens per second with a 1M-token context window. Inception reports it is 4x faster than Mercury 2.5 and beats GPT-6 Luna and Haiku 5.5 on IFBench, GPQA Diamond, and SWE-Bench Atlas. Launch pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, 50% off.
