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Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

151 points · 92 comments · Retro_Dev

  1. rvz · · focus · HN ↗
    The speed means absolutely nothing when it is finishing almost dead last when compared to the frontier AI companies.
    1. timClicks · · focus · HN ↗
      It means something, because it an iterative workflow. If you're willing to burn tokens, it's possible for weaker models to implement tasks by incrementally improving drafts.
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