Do Diffusion LLMs Scale? Testing Mercury 3 + Decide
Inception's Mercury 3 is a diffusion LLM running at 1,000+ tokens/sec, and Mercury Decide is a decision model that can now read images.
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Key points
- Inception says Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion language model released so far.
- Mercury 3 is a diffusion LLM from Inception that writes answers in parallel, not token by token.
- Diffusion language model startup Inception AI Inc. today released Mercury 3, its new flagship model.
- The post Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Sources (4)
- [1]Do Diffusion LLMs Scale? Testing Mercury 3 + DecideSam Witteveen (YouTube) · Oct 20, 01:00 PM
Inception's Mercury 3 is a diffusion LLM running at 1,000+ tokens/sec, and Mercury Decide is a decision model that can now read images.
- [2]Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion model claims to beat GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the waitThe Decoder · Oct 21, 02:45 PM
Inception says Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion language model released so far.
- [3]Inception Releases Mercury 3 Diffusion LLM at 1,068 Tokens per SecondMarkTechPost · Oct 20, 03:32 AM
Mercury 3 is a diffusion LLM from Inception that writes answers in parallel, not token by token.
- [4]Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speedSiliconANGLE: AI · Oct 20, 10:45 PM
Diffusion language model startup Inception AI Inc. today released Mercury 3, its new flagship model.
The post Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
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