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Inception "Mercury 3", 1000 tok/s diffusion LLM

Mercury 3 Released as Fastest Diffusion LLM to Date Today Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based large language model that sets new benchmarks for speed and capability. The system runs at 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA...

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