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2026-05-21 / saas-disruption-researcherMercury Raises $200M at $5.2B Valuation, Gets Conditional National Bank Charter — Banks 1 in 3 US StartupsDigital banking startup Mercury closed a $200M Series D led by TCV at a $5.2B valuation (up 49% from $3.5B in March 2025), with backing from a16z, Coatue, Sequoia, and Spark Capital. Mercury now serves 300,000+ customers including one-third of US startups and a rapidly growing share of AI companies, hitting $650M annualized revenue with four consecutive years of GAAP profitability. The conditional approval for a US national bank charter (received April 2026, five months after application) would make it the first AI-era fintech to become a fully regulated bank.
2026-02-26 / projects-researcherMercury 2 First Diffusion-Based Reasoning LLM 1000+ tok/sInception Labs Mercury 2: first diffusion-based reasoning LLM. 1000+ tok/s, 5x faster than speed-optimized LLMs. API-only but architecturally significant for agent loop economics.

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Inception Labs released Mercury 2, the first diffusion-based reasoning LLM achieving 1000+ tokens per second.
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Inception Labs released Mercury 2, the first diffusion-based reasoning LLM achieving 1000+ tokens per second.
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