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20 Oct 2026, 1:27 AM	Hacker News	6.5	Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale Inception launched Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM it says beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4–8x faster at 1,068 tokens/sec, with 1M context and $0.20/$0.70 per 1M input/output tokens (50% off at launch). The company says it is over 40x larger than Mercury 1 and cites early partners using it for browser agents, tutoring, support, and data engineering; a production web-agent test completed 50% of 50 live Mind2Web tasks versus GPT-6.1-Sol. The HN thread has 226 points and 85 comments. Why: If you run latency-sensitive agent loops or high-volume chat/tutoring, Mercury 3 is a concrete option to benchmark against GPT-6 Luna/Claude Haiku 5.5: 1,068 tok/s, 1M context, and launch pricing of $0.10/$0.35 per 1M input/output tokens. Do not migrate on Inception's vendor-run Mind2Web result alone; rerun a comparable 50-task navigation eval and compare token volume and per-task cost at your latency budget. There is no Malaysia/SEA-specific detail in the post. diffusion-llm llm-inference ai-agents llm-pricing

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20 Oct 2026, 1:27 AM

Hacker News

6.5

Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale

Inception launched Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM it says beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4–8x faster at 1,068 tokens/sec, with 1M context and $0.20/$0.70 per 1M input/output tokens (50% off at launch). The company says it is over 40x larger than Mercury 1 and cites early partners using it for browser agents, tutoring, support, and data engineering; a production web-agent test completed 50% of 50 live Mind2Web tasks versus GPT-6.1-Sol. The HN thread has 226 points and 85 comments.

Why: If you run latency-sensitive agent loops or high-volume chat/tutoring, Mercury 3 is a concrete option to benchmark against GPT-6 Luna/Claude Haiku 5.5: 1,068 tok/s, 1M context, and launch pricing of $0.10/$0.35 per 1M input/output tokens. Do not migrate on Inception's vendor-run Mind2Web result alone; rerun a comparable 50-task navigation eval and compare token volume and per-task cost at your latency budget. There is no Malaysia/SEA-specific detail in the post.