I have liked diffusion models for quite a while, ever since i used the original Mercury to play AI Roguelite. I only have one question regarding Mercury 3: how tf did they get it to be so cheap?

If these benchmarks hold up it is a no-brainer against Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna, especially considering that Haiku 5.5 becomes 5x more expensive past 100k context, and this model goes up to 1M for the same price. (Note: the price increases 2x after a period post launch but is still way lower than Haiku is priced for >100k requests)