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Mercury 2.5
by Venice
CLOSEDHOSTEDCODING HELPFAST RESPONSESGENERAL RESEARCHPROBLEM SOLVING
RANKED #155 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #204 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 7.2 · 7,043 VOICES ·
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A fast text model designed to help with everyday research, problem solving, and writing code.
HAPPY9.5
64 mentions
SAD5.5
24 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 7,031 voices in this window
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Venice hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Mercury 2.5 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.2
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeekOffers snappy performance and strong general reasoning for everyday tasks.💸 COST EFFICIENT❤️ CROWD FAVORITE🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY15.0k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.3Apertus v1.5 70BInfomaniakSolid open weights alternative when local deployment and data privacy matter.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY2.5k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Community discussions highlight Mercury 2.5 as a popular choice for coding help. There are currently no major complaints recorded.
736 POSTS · 6307 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · GITHUB · REDDIT · DEV.TO · BLUESKY
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
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Muse Spark 1.3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-09-02 · 837 UPVOTESI scraped 5.94 billion TikTok videos and 3.23 billion profiles in 3 weeks. Uploaded full dataset to Hugging Face for free. Step by step…
I scraped 5.94 billion TikTok videos and 3.23 billion profiles in 3 weeks. Uploaded full dataset to Hugging Face for free. Step by step tutorial and code below. [P]
- REDDIT · 2026-09-10 · 139 UPVOTESWe just solved a Millennium Prize problem/s using 2025/2026-era compute. Imagine what 2027/2028/2029 looks like.
We just solved a Millennium Prize problem/s using 2025/2026-era compute. Imagine what 2027/2028/2029 looks like.
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-08 · 133 UPVOTESMercury 2.5
Mercury 2.5
- BLUESKY · 2026-09-08 · 77 UPVOTESNew diffusion model 👀 www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introdu...
New diffusion model 👀 www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introdu...
- HACKER NEWS · 2026-09-23 · 68 UPVOTESMercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
- REDDIT · 2026-09-02 · 67 UPVOTESGood, cheap, token hungry
Good, cheap, token hungry
- REDDIT · 2025-05-16 · 32 UPVOTESchatGPT glitching tf out
chatGPT glitching tf out
- BLUESKY · 2026-05-11 · 27 UPVOTESFor the last three decades, logging on Oregon's federally-managed land has focused on balancing wood production with wil
For the last three decades, logging on Oregon's federally-managed land has focused on balancing wood production with wil
- BLUESKY · 2026-05-14 · 20 UPVOTESOregon's mature and old-growth forests on public lands are our most important, biggest natural climate solution. If agen
Oregon's mature and old-growth forests on public lands are our most important, biggest natural climate solution. If agen
- BLUESKY · 2026-03-20 · 20 UPVOTESWe aren't allowed to send healthy food to incarcerated friends in NC. No veggies or fruits. No unsalted nuts. No brow
We aren't allowed to send healthy food to incarcerated friends in NC. No veggies or fruits. No unsalted nuts. No brow
- BLUESKY · 2026-05-12 · 13 UPVOTESreally do not want these awful, greedy fucks to cut down the forests
really do not want these awful, greedy fucks to cut down the forests
- REDDIT · 2026-09-10 · 0 UPVOTESI trained a 348M model trained from scratch on 22.7B tokens that does 14 digit arithmetic [P]
I trained a 348M model trained from scratch on 22.7B tokens that does 14 digit arithmetic [P]