# Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM it claims is "comparable to Luna and Haiku models" but 4x to 8x faster, generating ~1,000 tokens per second (Jason Hiner/The Deep View) — retained record

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<a href="https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/why-inception-s-mercury-3-upends-ai-economics"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/261019/i51.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/261019/p51#a261019p51" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jason Hiner / <a href="https://www.thedeepview.com/">The Deep View</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/why-inception-s-mercury-3-upends-ai-economics">Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM it claims is &ldquo;comparable to Luna and Haiku models&rdquo; but 4x to 8x faster, generating ~1,000 tokens per second</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; W&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; hile the AI industry has bet heavily on LLMs and the massive data centers needed to scale them &hellip; </p>
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