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Mercury by Inception Labs
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Diffusion-based LLMs (Mercury) that generate tokens in parallel for faster, cheaper inference than autoregressive models.
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Free
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Diffusion-based language generation
- ✦Parallel token generation for speed
- ✦Lower inference cost than conventional LLMs
- ✦Fine-grained output/schema control
- ✦API access
- ✦Enterprise deployment
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Use cases
- →Low-latency LLM inference
- →Cost-sensitive high-volume generation
- →Structured/schema-constrained outputs
- →Enterprise AI deployments
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