How did Inception Mercury Edit 2 do on X?
Inception posted the Mercury Edit 2 launch from @_inception_ai on Mar 31, 2026. The post has 48,714 views, 409 likes, 40 reposts, 10 quotes and 11 replies, an engagement rate of 0.96%. It ranks #2148 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Introducing Mercury Edit 2: highest quality next-edit model at the lowest latency. 75.6% quality at 221ms. Beats Zeta 2 (64.4%), Claude 4.5 Haiku (71.4%), GPT-5.4 Nano (73.5%). +48% accept rate. -27% shown rate.
- 28%the median launch175K median views
- #2148of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 2.3xits own following20,919 followers
- Views
- 48.7K
- Likes
- 409
- Reposts
- 40
- Quotes
- 10
- Replies
- 11
- Bookmarks
- 143
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 48.7K views would cost $5K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 21x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 2.3 views for every follower of @_inception_ai.
What launched?
Inception launched Mercury Edit 2, a next-edit model with 75.6% quality at 221ms latency.
How does it compare with other launches?
Inception Mercury Edit 2 has more views than 24% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 28% of the median launch's 175K views.
- Inception Mercury Edit 248.7K
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Inception Mercury Edit 2 | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 48.7K | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.96% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 2.3 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 10 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 29.4 | 14.2 |
Other Inception launches we track: Inception Mercury 2 (198.1K views), Inception Mercury 3 (73.4K views), Inception Mercury 2.5 (72.4K views), Inception Mercury Voice (58.3K views), Inception Mercury 2.5 Preview (22.1K views) and Inception Mercury Decide (20.4K views). All 7 Inception launches, or every ai launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 263K | 19% | #1210 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,135 | 99.4K | 49% | #723 |
| Image launch posts | 620 | 143.1K | 34% | #445 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 28% | #2148 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 20.9K followers, the post reached 2.3 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 76% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 723 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 10 quote posts, 2.1 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Introducing Mercury Edit 2: highest quality next-edit model at the lowest latency.". The post runs 33 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.
There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 184.9K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Tuesday (UTC). Tuesday launches have a median of 192.3K views, the strongest day in the tracker.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Inception?
- In its own words on X: "Pioneering a new generation of LLMs." Inception posted the Mercury Edit 2 launch from @_inception_ai on Mar 31, 2026.
- How many views did Inception Mercury Edit 2 get on X?
- 48,714 views. Inception posted it from @_inception_ai on Mar 31, 2026, and the post has 409 likes, 40 reposts, 10 quotes, 11 replies and 143 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Inception Mercury Edit 2 a big launch on X?
- It ranks #2148 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 24% of them and 28% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.96%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 48.7K views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 48.7K views would cost $5K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 21x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/inception-mercury-edit-2, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.