Mercury 3

Mercury 3 is a recently tracked product, model, or tool in public channels. The radar excerpt reads:

Inception Labs blog Product · Oct 19, 2026: "Diffusion at Scale: Introducing Mercury 3" — most capable diffusion LLM to date; outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4–8× faster at 1,068 tok/s; 1M context (up from 260K); launch price 50% off $0.10/$0.35 per 1M. Live on Inception API, OpenRouter, Baseten, Vercel AI Gateway. Sitemap: /blog/introducing-mercury-3. CN/EN overnight chatter Oct 19–20. Distinct from skipped Mercury Decide sibling.

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• Inception Labs blog Product · Oct 19, 2026: "Diffusion at Scale: Introducing Mercury 3" — most capable diffusion LLM to date; outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4–8× faster at 1,068 tok/s; 1M context (up from 260K); launch price 50% off $0.10/$0.35 per 1M.

• Live on Inception API, OpenRouter, Baseten, Vercel AI Gateway.

• Sitemap: /blog/introducing-mercury-3.

• CN/EN overnight chatter Oct 19–20.

• Distinct from skipped Mercury Decide sibling.

The radar score for this entry is 0.91 (an internal ranking field, not a third-party benchmark score).

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1. Open the source link: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-3 and check the official description and availability.

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