# Inception — Mercury 2 Named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2026

- Company: Inception (inceptionlabs.ai)
- Announced: 2026-10-15
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/mercury-2-named-to-time-s-best-inventions-of-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/22948-mercury-2-named-to-time-s-best-inventions-of-2026
- Subject: Mercury
- Models affected: Mercury 2

Inception's Mercury 2, described as the first diffusion LLM built to reason, was named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 list in the Artificial Intelligence category. The post highlights Mercury 2's architecture, which generates tokens in parallel rather than autoregressively, and claims it generates over 1,000 tokens per second, more than 5x faster than leading speed-optimized LLMs.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/mercury-2-named-to-time-s-best-inventions-of-2026:

> Today, TIME named Mercury 2 to its Best Inventions of 2026 list in the Artificial Intelligence category.

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