Inception
Makes Mercury, a fast diffusion-based language model.
- Type
- AI lab
- Last shipped
- Oct 19, 2026
Everything Inception shipped
October 2026
- New model
Inception released Mercury 3, a diffusion language model running over 1,000 tokens per second with a 1M-token context window, on its API, Baseten and OpenRouter.
- New feature
Inception's Mercury Decide now accepts image input, opening it to vision tasks, and is available on OpenRouter, Inception and Baseten.
- New feature
Inception updated Mercury Decide with better benchmark results, a longer 66k context, general availability with Zero Data Retention, and lower pricing.
September 2026
- Launch
Inception launched Mercury Decide, a decision model that makes up to 14 decisions per second, with free early access on OpenRouter.
- Launch
Inception introduced Mercury Voice, a diffusion language model for voice agents with over 2x lower latency than comparable models, available to enterprise customers through sales.
- New model
Inception launched Mercury 2.5, a diffusion language model with a 40% intelligence gain over Mercury 2, available on its API, OpenRouter and Baseten.
- Availability
Inception put Mercury 2.5 Preview live exclusively on OpenRouter, with 80% off pricing through September 7.
