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Inception

Makes Mercury, a fast diffusion-based language model.

Type
AI lab
Last shipped
Oct 19, 2026
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Everything Inception shipped

October 2026

  1. 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.

  2. New feature

    Inception's Mercury Decide now accepts image input, opening it to vision tasks, and is available on OpenRouter, Inception and Baseten.

  3. 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

  1. Launch

    Inception launched Mercury Decide, a decision model that makes up to 14 decisions per second, with free early access on OpenRouter.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Availability

    Inception put Mercury 2.5 Preview live exclusively on OpenRouter, with 80% off pricing through September 7.

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