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ONE THOUSAND TOKENS A SECOND.

By Zimbo · October 20, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: a robot at a desk writes four full pages at once as text resolves from visual noise like developing photos, while a speedometer reads '1,000 tok/s' and a tall stack of papers labeled 'One word at a time…' sits beside it; a tabby cat sleeps on the desk.
Inception's Mercury 3 is a diffusion LLM that writes whole paragraphs in parallel — like a photo resolving from noise — at 1,000 tokens/sec, 4-8x faster than rivals, while beating GPT-6 Luna on benchmarks. 40x larger than Mercury 1, same speed.Zimbo for AI News Page

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