Stefano Ermon
@StefanoErmon
1/4 Today, we’re releasing Mercury 3. Mercury 3 is by far our most powerful model and the most intelligent diffusion LLM ever released. It outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Haiku 5.5 on quality while running at 1000+ tok/sec.
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Stefano Ermon
@StefanoErmon
2/4 Mercury 3 demonstrates that text diffusion scales. At over 40x the size of Mercury 1, it’s vastly more intelligent while remaining just as fast. This is just the beginning: diffusion opens a new path to scaling AI, where intelligence can grow without a proportional increase in latency.

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Stefano Ermon
@StefanoErmon
3/4 Mercury 3 is already powering diverse agentic applications, including code review, interactive education, and browser use. Early adopters include @Tiny_Fish, Lorikeet, @revisiondojo, Bauplan, @OctenAI, and Croux.

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Stefano Ermon
@StefanoErmon
4/4 Mercury 3 is available today on the Inception API Platform and through @OpenRouter, @baseten , and @vercel. For the launch, we’re offering it 50% off, at just $0.1 per 1M input and $0.35 per 1M output.
Enterprise customers should reach out to our team for higher rate limits and dedicated support.
www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-m…
Enterprise customers should reach out to our team for higher rate limits and dedicated support.
www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-m…
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