Inception Says Mercury 3 Outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5
Summary
Inception releases Mercury 3, a diffusion-based language model it says outperforms GPT Better Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while generating 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs. The model carries a 1 million token context and costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens, with launch pricing at half that.
Key Points
- Inception says Mercury 3 is more than 40x larger than Mercury 1 and triples benchmark intelligence from Mercury 1 mini.
- Mercury 3 is available on the Inception API Platform and through OpenRouter, Baseten and Vercel, and is OpenAI API compatible.
- Inception reports Mercury 3 completed 50% of 50 live Mind2Web navigation tasks, more than GPT-6.1-Sol.