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Inception AI Inc. releases its flagship diffusion language model Mercury 3. Information published by OpenRouter on October 20 shows that Mercury 3 is now available on the platform, with a generation speed exceeding 1000 tok/s, a context window of 1M, and a speed 4 times that of Mercury 2.5; Inception claims that it surpasses GPT-6 Luna and Haiku 5.5 on IFBench, GPQA Diamond, and SWE-Bench Atlas, and during its launch period the pricing is $0.10/M tokens for input and $0.35/M tokens for output, equivalent to a 50% discount. SiliconANGLE reported on October 21 that Inception outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on 8 of its own 12 benchmarks, with speeds 4 to 8 times faster; the company says it reaches 1068 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs, compared with about 240 for Haiku 5.5 and about 130 for GPT-6 Luna; the context window has been increased to 1 million tokens, the parameter count was not disclosed, with only a claim that it exceeds Mercury 1 by more than 40 times, and pricing is 2 per million input tokens
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Inception AI's Mercury 3 launches on OpenRouter with generation speeds over 1000 tok/s
Inception AI's new diffusion model Mercury 3 is now live on OpenRouter, with generation speeds exceeding 1000 tok/s, a 1M context window, and 4x the speed of Mercury 2.5. Inception claims it outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Haiku 5.5 on IFBench, GPQA Diamond, and SWE-Bench Atlas. During the launch period, pricing is $0.10/M tokens for input and $0.35/M tokens for output, equivalent to 50% off.