Inception says Mercury 3 matches GPT-6 Luna while running 4-8x faster

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Mercury 3 is Inception's flagship diffusion-based LLM. Inception says it matches or beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4-8x faster.

Here's what changed:

• Generation reaches 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs.
• Launch pricing is 50% below the standard rates of $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens.
• Cached input tokens cost 90% less than the input price.
• The API is OpenAI API compatible, and the model supports a 1-million-token context window, up from Mercury 2.5's 260,000 tokens.

One catch: The 50% Mind2Web completion result comes from Inception's own evaluation of 50 live navigation tasks.

Try it: Use the Inception API Platform with 100 million free API tokens, or access Mercury 3 through OpenRouter or Baseten. Also available via Vercel

Sources: inceptionlabs.ai · inceptionlabs.ai