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Inception: Mercury 3

Mercury 3 is a diffusion-based language model from Inception, and the lab's most capable model to date.

InceptionMercury 3
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Mercury 3 is a diffusion-based language model from Inception, and the lab's most capable model to date. It is suited for agentic workflows and real-time applications where latency compounds, such...
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