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Inception Labs announces Mercury

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Mercury announced — with diffusion-based parallel token generation, Mercury Coder Mini reaches 1,109 tok/s on an H100

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Claims up to 10× the speed of speed-optimized frontier models. The first time a diffusion LM entered a commercial track

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