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Description

Mercury 2 represents a groundbreaking advancement in reasoning models, specifically designed for real-time voice interaction as it can quickly answer phone calls. Unlike traditional autoregressive models that leave callers in silence while generating responses one token at a time, Mercury 2 employs a diffusion large language model architecture capable of producing over 1000 tokens per second with standard NVIDIA GPUs. This remarkable speed allows it to complete a full reasoning process and begin speaking within a timeframe that aligns with natural conversational flow, effectively shortening the typical wait time from several seconds to approximately 300 milliseconds. The operational mechanism of Mercury models involves transforming clear text into noise, after which a conventional Transformer is trained to reverse this transformation and predict the original text across all positions at once. By utilizing a denoising approach that engages multiple tokens simultaneously, generation becomes more efficient, enabling speeds akin to custom silicon on NVIDIA H100s while improving responsiveness in voice applications. As a result, Mercury 2 not only enhances user experience but also sets a new standard for interactive voice technologies.

Description

On June 23, 2025, Microsoft unveiled Mu, an innovative 330-million-parameter encoder–decoder language model specifically crafted to enhance the agent experience within Windows environments by effectively translating natural language inquiries into function calls for Settings, all processed on-device via NPUs at a remarkable speed of over 100 tokens per second while ensuring impressive accuracy. By leveraging Phi Silica optimizations, Mu’s encoder–decoder design employs a fixed-length latent representation that significantly reduces both computational demands and memory usage, achieving a 47 percent reduction in first-token latency and a decoding speed that is 4.7 times greater on Qualcomm Hexagon NPUs when compared to other decoder-only models. Additionally, the model benefits from hardware-aware tuning techniques, which include a thoughtful 2/3–1/3 split of encoder and decoder parameters, shared weights for input and output embeddings, Dual LayerNorm, rotary positional embeddings, and grouped-query attention, allowing for swift inference rates exceeding 200 tokens per second on devices such as the Surface Laptop 7, along with sub-500 ms response times for settings-related queries. This combination of features positions Mu as a groundbreaking advancement in on-device language processing capabilities.

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Integrations

Cerebras Yes 
GPT-4.1 Yes 
Groq Yes 
Inception Labs Yes 
LiveKit Yes 
OpenAI Yes 
Pipecat Yes 
Retell AI Yes 
Vapi AI Yes 

Integrations

Cerebras No 
GPT-4.1 No 
Groq No 
Inception Labs No 
LiveKit No 
OpenAI No 
Pipecat No 
Retell AI No 
Vapi AI No 

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Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
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Deployment

Web-Based No 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
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Linux No 
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Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
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Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars Yes 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person Yes 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Inception

Country

United States

Website

www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/mercury-2-the-first-reasoning-model-fast-enough-to-pick-up-the-phone

Vendor Details

Company Name

Microsoft

Founded

1975

Country

United States

Website

blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/06/23/introducing-mu-language-model-and-how-it-enabled-the-agent-in-windows-settings/

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