Inception Labs AI Releases: Mercury

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ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one Inception Labs release so far: Mercury on Feb 27, 2025. Inception Labs debuts Mercury, a commercial diffusion LLM. The entry below has primary-source links and the episode where we covered it live.

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Inception Labs debuts Mercury, a commercial diffusion LLM

Inception Labs announced Mercury, billed as the first commercial-scale diffusion large language model, generating text via diffusion rather than autoregressive decoding. The approach promises dramatically faster token throughput, demoed first with the Mercury Coder playground.