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Inception previews Mercury 2.5 AI model with 260k context

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A new AI model named Mercury 2.5 has been released as a preview by Inception. This model boasts a context window of 260,000 tokens and offers commercial usage with pricing of $0.04 per 1 million tokens for input and $0.15 per 1 million tokens for output. AI

IMPACT This release offers a large context window and competitive pricing, potentially impacting the market for advanced AI models.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Inception previews Mercury 2.5 AI model with 260k context

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COVERAGE [1]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · opensourceaitech ·

    🧠 New model: Mercury 2.5 Preview (Inception) Context: 260k tokens · $0.04 in / $0.15 out per 1M · commercial All the latest models, tracked hourly: https:// olu

    🧠 New model: Mercury 2.5 Preview (Inception) Context: 260k tokens · $0.04 in / $0.15 out per 1M · commercial All the latest models, tracked hourly: https:// olud.ai/latest.html # AI # LLM

    LINKS olud.ai/latest.html

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