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Inception releases flagship diffusion large model Mercury 3
Inception released the diffusion-architecture large model Mercury 3 on October 19, 2026, claiming it surpasses GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on multiple benchmarks, reaches a speed of 1068 tokens/s on NVIDIA GPUs, and increases the context window from 260,000 in Mercury 2.5 to 1 million tokens. The launch price is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 for output, with regular pricing at $0.20 and $0.70, and cached input at $0.02. Mercury 3 can be accessed via the Inception API, OpenRouter, Baseten, and Vercel, and is compatible with the OpenAI API; Mercury 2 and 2.5 are no longer available to new users, and existing customers can use them until November 15, 2026.
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