Mercury 3 launches on Venice, bringing parallel token generation to private AI

Inception Labs' diffusion-based model claims speeds above 1,000 tokens per second and is now accessible through the privacy-focused Venice platform Most chatbots write the way a nervous student fills in an exam: one word at a time, never looking back. Inception Labs is betting that approach is a bottleneck. The company’s new model, Mercury 3 , is now live on Venice.ai. It uses a diffusion architecture that generates and refines every token in a response at once, pushing output speeds past 1,000 tokens per second. Inception Labs launched Mercury 3 on October 19, 2026.

Source: Crypto Briefing