# Inception Mercury 2 is live on AI Gateway

**Published:** March 4, 2026 | **Authors:** Walter Korman, Jerilyn Zheng

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Mercury 2 from Inception is now available on [Vercel AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/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 latency is the bottleneck.

To use Mercury 2, set model to `inception/mercury-2` in the [AI SDK](https://ai-sdk.dev/).

```typescript
import { streamText } from 'ai';
const result = streamText({
  model: 'inception/mercury-2',
  prompt:
    `For each incoming support ticket, classify urgency,
     retrieve relevant docs, draft a response, and escalate
     if unresolved.`,
});
```

AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in [observability](https://vercel.com/docs/observability/ai-sdk-observability), [Bring Your Own Key](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway#bring-your-own-key) support, and intelligent provider routing with automatic retries.

Learn more about [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway), view the [AI Gateway model leaderboard](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/leaderboards) or try it in our [model playground](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/mercury-2).

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