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by moralestapia 412 days ago
>Mercury is up to 10x faster than frontier speed-optimized LLMs. Our models run at over 1000 tokens/sec on NVIDIA H100s, a speed previously possible only using custom chips.

This means on custom chips (Cerebras, Graphcore, etc...) we might see 10k-100k tokens/sec? Amazing stuff!

Also of note, funny how text generation started w/ autoregression/tokens and diffusion seems to perform better, while image generation went the opposite way.

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After reviewing what they have on their playground, this thing seems to be a scam.

They're running Qwen on a traditional LLM pipeline. The "diffusion effect", as it says there, it's just a decorative, lmao. That in itself shouldn't break the deal as I understand you have to put on a show, but, looking at the latency and timing of their outputs this is not a diffusion model, as they claim. They're also not even close to the 1,000 TPS figure they put out.

I'm surprised nobody on this forum got the slightest clue on that. I guess I should 4x my fee again :).