Inception Labs introduces its Mercury Series of diffusion-based LLMs
Inception Labs has introduced Mercury, a new series of large language models that use diffusion technology rather than traditional autoregressive processing. The company reports these models can process tasks 10 times faster than current approaches, with initial releases focused on coding applications.<br /> The article Inception Labs introduces its Mercury Series of diffusion-based LLMs appeared first on THE DECODER. [...]
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