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# 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 \(Jason Hiner/The Deep View\)

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**Published:** 2026-10-20T01:45:01.000Z
**Category:** Models
**Topics:** llm

## Summary

Inception launched Mercury 3, a diffusion\-based LLM it claims is comparable to Luna and Haiku models but 4x to 8x faster, generating approximately 1,000 tokens per second\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://www.techmeme.com/261019/p51>)
- [Story source](<https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/19/inception-mercury-3-diffusion-llm/>)
- [Story source](<https://the-decoder.com/inceptions-mercury-3-diffusion-model-claims-to-beat-gpt-6-luna-and-claude-haiku-5-5-at-a-fraction-of-the-wait/>)