Mercury 2 Review: 1,000 Tokens per Second, Tested
Mercury 2 by Inception Labs is the fastest reasoning LLM available, built on diffusion architecture. We tested the speed, quality, and real-world trade-offs.
Articles Tagged "Developer Tools"
Mercury 2 Is 13x Faster Than Claude Haiku - Verified
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 hits 1,196 tokens per second in independent testing - a diffusion architecture that rewires how inference works.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Tops Benchmarks but Developers Can't Rely on It
Gemini 3.1 Pro leads ARC-AGI-2, LiveCodeBench, and 11 other benchmarks with 750 million users and 21.5% market share - but developers report stalled responses, leaked thinking tokens, and API outages that make it unusable for production coding and agent workflows.
Cursor Hits $2B ARR in Record Time - at What Cost
Cursor doubled its annualized revenue to $2 billion in just three months, making it the fastest-growing SaaS company in history. But its dependence on model providers raises hard questions about margins and survival.
Mistral Vibe 2.0 Review - Europe's CLI Coding Agent
Mistral Vibe 2.0 pairs the open-weight Devstral 2 model with a terminal-native coding agent. We tested it head-to-head against Claude Code and Codex.
Apple's Core AI Will Replace Core ML in iOS 27
Apple plans to unveil Core AI at WWDC 2026, a modernized framework replacing Core ML that opens the door to third-party AI models and MCP integration across its entire ecosystem.
AI Is Writing Code at the Pace of 40,000 Developers - And Doubling Fast
Claude Code alone now authors 4% of all GitHub commits. At its current growth rate, AI code output will match 200,000 developers by year-end, a million by 2027, and over a billion by 2028.
Cursor Ships Cloud Agents That Build, Test, and Demo Code
Cursor's cloud agents now run in isolated VMs where they write software, test it themselves, record video proof, and submit merge-ready pull requests.
Xcode 26.3 Ships Agentic Coding - Here Is What It Can Do
Apple releases Xcode 26.3 with native support for Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex, exposing 20 MCP tools that let AI agents build, test, and visually verify iOS apps autonomously.
Figma Adds Codex Days After Claude Code - MCP Wins
Figma integrates OpenAI Codex via its MCP server just nine days after adding Claude Code, turning the design tool into a universal bridge between design and AI-powered coding.
Amazon Q Developer Review: AWS's AI Coding Bet Pays Off - With Caveats
A thorough review of Amazon Q Developer - AWS's AI coding assistant with deep cloud integration, agent mode, and a generous free tier, tested against the competition.
GitHub Copilot Opens Claude and Codex to All Paid Users - No Extra Cost
GitHub makes Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex available to all Copilot Business and Pro subscribers at no additional cost, turning Copilot into a true multi-model platform.
