# Inception: what I've logged

> Inception comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from February 2026 to October 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The releases I logged include Jais-3-375B-A23B and Mercury 2, filed under open weights, agents and coding and image, video, world.

## Items

1. **Jais-3-375B-A23B** (Inception, 14 Oct 2026): The flagship of the Jais-3 family is a 375B mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 23B active parameters and a 512K context window, released under Apache 2.0 for Arabic and English. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/inception42/Jais-3-375B-A23B) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-15-jais-3-step-5-ling-drama-3#item-1)
2. **Mercury 2** (Inception, 23 Feb 2026): A reasoning language model built on diffusion instead of token-by-token generation, aimed at very low latency. [Primary source](https://inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-23-week-in-ai#item-3)

## Posts

- 2026-10-15 [Jais 3 goes open, Step 5 and Ling 3.1 land, Drama 3 speaks](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-15-jais-3-step-5-ling-drama-3)
- 2026-02-23 [Nano Banana 2, Qwen3.5 medium models and a diffusion LLM](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-23-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/inception