Diffusion Earns the Right to Scale
Inception Labs released Mercury 3 on October 19, claiming the model matches GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on benchmarks while generating over 1,000 tokens per second. The more meaningful claim isn't the speed — it's that diffusion language models now scale in quality roughly as autoregressive models do, which would change the inference economics for an entire class of workloads.
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