Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion model claims to beat GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the wait

Inception has released Mercury 3, a diffusion-based large language model that achieves a generation speed of 1,068 tokens per second and supports a 1-million-token context window. According to the company's internal benchmarks, the model outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 across eight out of twelve tested categories.