Inception's model writes its whole answer at once, not word by word.
The California startup Inception released Mercury 2.5 on Tuesday, a model that writes text the way image tools paint. It clocks 1,107 tokens a second, where a token is a chunk of a few letters. No independent tester has scored it yet, so the quality claims are still the company's own.
Why it mattersSpeed decides whether a voice assistant feels alive or leaves you sitting through an awkward pause. A fast cheap model gives builders an option outside the big labs for everyday jobs.
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