Inception Labs’ Mercury 2 AI Beats Google’s DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game
In brief Inception Labs’ Mercury 2 generates roughly 1,000 tokens per second and scored 90 on the AIME 2026 Google’s recent DiffusionGemma hits similar speeds but performs worse on benchmarks. DiffusionGemma is free and open-weight on Hugging Face. Mercury 2 is a paid, closed-weight API model. Inception Labs introduced Mercury 2 on Thursday, calling it…