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Inception Mercury 2 is live on AI Gateway

Reasoning-grade latency just hit real-time. Inception's Mercury 2 is now live on Vercel's AI Gateway—built for agents that can't afford compounding delays.

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Why it matters

Mercury 2 availability on Vercel's AI Gateway expands deployment options for builders shipping agentic workflows, voice interfaces, and RAG systems where inference latency directly impacts UX. This is a product/integration ship, not a model capability announcement.

The key facts

10 to know
  1. Mercury 2 from Inception now available on Vercel AI Gateway

  2. Targets agentic loops, coding assistants, voice interfaces, RAG pipelines

  3. Key differentiator: reasoning-grade quality at real-time latency

  4. AI Gateway provides unified API, usage/cost tracking, intelligent provider routing, automatic retries

  5. Includes observability and Bring Your Own Key support

  6. Published March 4, 2026

  7. Mercury 2 from Inception now live on Vercel AI Gateway

  8. Positioned for agentic loops, coding assistants, voice interfaces, RAG pipelines

  9. AI Gateway provides unified API, usage tracking, cost management, intelligent routing, failover

  10. Supports observability and Bring Your Own Key

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Publisher excerpt: Mercury 2 from Inception is now available on .Vercel AI Gateway Mercury 2 from Inception is now available on AI Gateway. Mercury 2 delivers reasoning-grade quality at real-time latency, making it ideal for agentic loops, coding assistants, voice interfaces, and RAG pipelines where compounding…
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