Inference & Serving · 2025

Mercury: Ultra-Fast Language Models Based on Diffusion

Inception Labs (Samar Khanna, Siddhant Kharbanda, Shufan Li, et al.)

First commercial-grade diffusion LLM, generating tokens in parallel to reach an order-of-magnitude higher throughput than autoregressive coders at comparable quality.

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First commercial-grade diffusion LLM, generating tokens in parallel to reach an order-of-magnitude higher throughput than autoregressive coders at comparable quality.

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    freshness sweep 2026

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P-616
Record created
2026-07-13
Last reviewed
2026-07-14
Record version
2

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