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Summary by forck
Inception launched Mercury 3 on October 19th, pitching its diffusion-based language model as a faster alternative to conventional systems that generate text one token at a time.
- CEO and co-founder Stefano Ermon says it delivers more than 1,000 tokens per second while improving on the company's earlier models.
- The launch tests whether diffusion can scale into general agent and business workloads while keeping its speed advantage.
- Its published results and partner examples are company-reported, so adoption will depend on how the model performs in developers' own tasks.