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The speaker claims that Inception's Mercury models match the benchmark performance of the referenced frontier models while running significantly faster.
Stefano Ermon · Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon · 18 Sept 2026
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“So our Mercury models are on par with the Heiku models,”
“Flash models,”
“meaning HANA models from OpenAI,”
“if you look at benchmarks,”
“while being significantly faster.”Play from 12:33Report a misattribution
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