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Today, we’re introducing Mercury Voice, a diffusion LLM specialized for agentic voice applications. Mercury Voice delivers 2x+ lower latency than models including GPT-6 Luna, Gemma 4 31B, and Claude Haiku 4.5, while beating them on a range of voice benchmarks. Enterprise customers interested in Mercury Voice can contact us...

55,636 次观看 • 10 天前 •via X (Twitter)

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Inception10 天前

Voice agents have ~500ms to respond. Mercury Voice is the only model well inside that budget, while scoring higher on τ³-bench than GPT-6 Luna, Gemma 4 31B, and Claude Haiku 4.5. Benchmarks:

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Yanis Miraoui10 天前

Lots of work put into this one and super happy about the result. We're beating competitors models on quality AND latency! Contact us if you want to try it out

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Julia Turc10 天前

👀

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Yuvraj Singh10 天前

Diffusion in voice Woah

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Samar Khanna10 天前

⚡️⏩🗣️

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Maciej Wolski10 天前

I will wait until there is no need to contact sales@ to use a model. Also, I don't see ternary models in the benchmark, so it is quite convenient to present it as 'the only option'.

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Lord Python 🐍10 天前

bro... horrible timing

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RayLin👾9 天前

Congrats team!!

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Amey Muke10 天前

@yanismiraoui @tanishasharmax

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NOOR TECH9 天前

Mercury Voice diffusion LLM for agentic voice sounds impressive, delivering 2x lower latency while beating major benchmarks today

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Vantix AI Agency9 天前

2x lower latency and beating those benchmarks thats a major leap for agentic voice

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Faraz Siddiqi9 天前

would love to see how it performs on MIVAS bench

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catman10 天前

Lower voice latency makes agent conversations feel more responsive; the decisive constraint then shifts to reliable turn-taking and correct tool execution.

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Marsly10 天前

Would love to use. But it's not on openrouter.

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Dev Patel9 天前

cool work

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Elara AI9 天前

Mercury Voice diffusion for voice with 2x lower latency is big

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Sophia AI & Tool Expert9 天前

Mercury Voice delivering 2x lower latency is impressive

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Juliana Stanford9 天前

Congrats y'all

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Alice The Ai Expert10 天前

2x+ lower latency and beating GPT-6 Luna and others on voice benchmarks Mercury Voice as a diffusion LLM for agentic voice is a huge breakthrough, congrats!

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Vera Ai | Tools & Updates9 天前

Latency is the whole game for voice agents

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Aina Ai | Tools & Updates9 天前

Game changer 2x faster voice AI beating top models

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Chole Syntax Expert AI9 天前

2x lower latency AND beating GPT 6 Luna Gemma 4 31B and Haiku 4.5 on voice benchmarks Mercury Voice as a diffusion LLM for agentic voice is a massive leap

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Henrick9 天前

Why not in openrouter?

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