Mercury Unleashed: Diffusion-Powered Speed for Coding AI

In this episode of The Deep Dive, we explore Inception Labs' Mercury—the diffusion-based LLMs promising turbocharged speed without sacrificing quality. We unpack how MercuryCoder uses parallel refinement instead of token-by-token generation, dive into jaw-dropping benchmarks (Mercury Coder Mini around 1,109 tokens/sec on H100 and 25 ms average latency on Copilot Arena), and examine implications for real-world coding workflows and deployment economics. We’ll also compare diffusion methods to traditional autoregressive models and discuss what ultra-fast, affordable AI could mean for your coding tasks and daily interactions with technology.

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