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I think your comment is a bit unfair.

> no reasoning comparison

Benchmarks against reasoning models:

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2

> no demo

https://chat.inceptionlabs.ai/

> no info on numbers of parameters for the model

This is a closed model. Do other providers publish the number of parameters for their models?

> testimonials that don't actually read like something used in production

Fair point.

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Just to clarify one point: Mercury (the original v1, non-reasoning model) is already used in production in mainstream IDEs like Zed: https://zed.dev/blog/edit-prediction-providers

Mercury v1 focused on autocomplete and next-edit prediction. Mercury 2 extends that into reasoning and agent-style workflows, and we have editor integrations available (docs linked from the blog). I’d encourage folks to try the models!

You are right edited my post (twice actually). Missed the chat first time around (though its hard to see it as a reasoning model when chain of thought is hidden, or not obvious. I guess this is the new normal), and also missed the reasoning table because text is pretty small on mobile and I thought its another speed benchmark.

I tried their chat demo again, and if you set reasoning effort to "High", you sometimes see the chain of thought before the answer (click the "Thought for n seconds" text to expand it).

That being said, the chain is pretty basic. It's possible that they don't disclose the full follow-up prompt list.

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