Mercury
Inception AI's flagship general-purpose model. Strong reasoning and instruction following for diverse tasks.
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Who created Mercury?
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Mercury was created by Inception AI.
Is Mercury a reasoning model?
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No, Mercury is not a reasoning model. It responds directly without an extended internal thinking step. For tasks requiring deep chain-of-thought reasoning, consider models like Claude, o-series from OpenAI, or Gemini Thinking.
Does Mercury support image or vision input?
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No, Mercury does not currently support image or vision input. It is a text-only model.
Does Mercury support audio?
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No, Mercury does not support audio input.
What is the context window of Mercury?
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Mercury has a context window of 128K tokens, meaning it can process approximately 96,000 words of context at once.
Is Mercury open source?
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Mercury is a proprietary model developed by Inception AI. The model weights and training data are not publicly available.
Where can I use Mercury?
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You can chat with Mercury on idapt.app — no separate API key required. idapt is an AI workspace with 200+ models, agents, computers, and tasks. You can also access Mercury through Inception AI's own API or platform.