Unless I misunderstood what they wrote, I read parallelized in the diffusion sense, akin to GemmaDiffusion and Inception Labs models. Incidentally, Mercury 2.5 is truly groundbreaking, giving it a try is highly recommended.
yup https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/57250
yup https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/57250