The A.I. Daily
Mercury 2.5 LLM Hits 770 Tokens per Second
Inception released Mercury 2.5, achieving 770.4 output tokens per second, ranking #2 in speed on Artificial Analysis. Its intelligence index is 12, below the median 13, but it is cost-effective at $0.25/$0.75 per million input/output tokens with 90% cache discount.