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Mercury 2

Fastest model on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard by output speed. Diffusion-based LLM architecture enabling massively parallel token generation — entirely different inference paradigm from autoregressive models.

CATEGORYGeneral
CONTEXT32K
RELEASEDMarch 1, 2026
Key Features
  • Fastest output speed (leaderboard #1)
  • Diffusion-based LLM
  • Parallel token generation
  • Novel non-autoregressive architecture
  • Ultra-low latency

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