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Oct 24, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Mercury 3 Diffusion LLM Beats GPT-6 Luna: 8x Faster, 40x Scale, Agent-Ready

Inception Labs' Mercury 3 diffusion LLM surpasses GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on benchmarks like GPQA Diamond and SWE-Bench, achieves 1,068 tokens/second (8x faster), scales 40x parameters while maintaining speed, offers 1M context window at low cost, and excels in AI agent tasks like web navigation and real-time search.