Speed matters most when people are waiting for a response, when information loses value by the second, or when agents make dozens of calls to complete a task.

Customers are already using Mercury 3 for browser use agents, interactive education, real-time search agents, customer support, and more.

in my case, I'm hoping that the time-to-first-token isn't so bad that I can have my admin users parse some information in the web ui pretty quickly (a very specific use case, i know)

The time isn’t too relevant for let’s say coding tasks. But if you’re doing user facing, or processing live-data (logs for example) the speed becomes important