Inception just dropped Mercury 3, a model 4-8x faster than Luna / Haiku for the same price and benchmark performance.

In real world use, OpenRouter shows that it’s effectively 2-4x faster and 2-4x cheaper effective price.

The time for diffusion language models is finally here!
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@deedydas Diffusion LMs write the whole answer at once, like a polaroid developing. Token streaming suddenly looks like a typewriter 🙂

Oct 20, 2026 · 7:35 AM UTC

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