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Mercury 2.5 (Inception) model launches with 260k context window

The Mercury 2.5 (Inception) model has been released, featuring a 260,000-token context window. This allows it to process extensive codebases in a single pass. The model is priced at $0.04 per 1 million tokens for input and $0.15 per 1 million tokens for output. AI

IMPACT Enables processing of entire codebases in one pass, potentially streamlining development workflows.

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

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Mercury 2.5 (Inception) model launches with 260k context window

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Mercury 2.5 (Inception) just hit the leaderboard with a 260k-token context window—enough to process entire codebases in one pass, at $0.04 in/$0.15 out per 1M.

    Mercury 2.5 (Inception) just hit the leaderboard with a 260k-token context window—enough to process entire codebases in one pass, at $0.04 in/$0.15 out per 1M. https:// olud.ai/latest.html # AI # LLM