diffusion-language-models
Mercury 2.5 makes diffusion-LM output speed the headline—and first-token latency the caveat News
Artificial Analysis measures Inception's Mercury 2.5 at 780.8 output tokens per second, second overall for speed, while also measuring a 2.91-second wait to its first answer token.
ICML's top paper says diffusion language models sabotage their own best feature News
ICML 2026 gave an Outstanding Paper award to work showing that diffusion language models waste their much-touted any-order generation by skipping the hardest, most decision-critical words -- and that forcing a plain left-to-right order during training fixes it.
A language model that writes by erasing, and now keeps up with the classics News
Almost every chatbot writes one word at a time, left to right. A newly released model of real size writes the way image AIs paint, refining a whole passage at once, and finally holds its own.
An openly-released text model that writes by refining, not word-by-word News
Most language models write one word after another, left to right. A new openly-released model of real size generates text the way image AIs make pictures — refining a whole draft at once.