SMRTR AIFeb 24, 2026Hacker News

Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion

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Mercury 2 uses diffusion technology to generate multiple tokens simultaneously rather than sequentially, achieving over 5x faster generation at 1,009 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs while maintaining competitive quality for reasoning tasks. This breakthrough enables real-time AI applications like coding assistance, voice interfaces, and agent workflows that previously suffered from compounding latency issues.

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