Mercury 2.5 Preview vs Qwen3.8 Max

Mercury 2.5 Preview

Inception · text → text

Mercury 2.5 is the latest diffusion-based large language model (dLLM) released by Inception. It is the fastest inference LLM; unlike the sequential token-by-token generation approach, Mercury 2.5 can generate and optimize multiple tokens in parallel, achieving a generation speed of 1,107 tokens per second on standard GPUs. Compared to Mercury 2, its intelligence has increased by more than 10 percentage points, and its quality rivals leading cost-optimized frontier models such as GPT-5.6 Luna (Low), Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Claude Haiku 4.5.

Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.