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. It is the fourth model in the company’s Mercury series. The headline figure is speed. Inception says the model hits 1,068 tokens per second when running on NVIDIA GPUs.