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About
BaseRT is a high-performance LLM inference runtime for Apple Silicon that lets developers pull models from Hugging Face, chat with them locally, or serve an OpenAI-compatible API from one CLI. Accelerated by hand-written Metal kernels, it is designed to deliver fast prefill and decode performance on M-series Macs, with published benchmarks showing up to 6.4× faster prefill than llama.cpp, 3.9× faster than MLX, and up to 1.33× faster decode. The basert CLI handles model downloading, conversion, interactive chat, serving, completion, benchmarking, inspection, and bundle signing. Its server supports chat, completions, embeddings, transcription, tool calls, continuous batching, paged KV caching, and prefix caching, while supported models can process text, vision, and audio. BaseRT uses its own .base model format with Q2–Q8 affine quantization, optional AWQ calibration, and signed bundles, and can convert GGUF, Hugging Face, and MLX checkpoints.
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Mercury 2 is the first reasoning model fast enough to pick up the phone, a reasoning diffusion language model built for real-time voice agents. Instead of making callers wait through seconds of dead air while an autoregressive model generates thinking tokens one by one, Mercury 2 uses a diffusion large language model architecture to generate tokens in parallel, decoding 1000+ tokens per second on standard NVIDIA GPUs. That speed is fast enough to run a full reasoning pass and start speaking within the latency budget of a natural conversation, reducing the cost of reasoning from seconds of silence to roughly 300 milliseconds. Mercury models work by corrupting clean text into noise, then training a standard Transformer to reverse the process and predict clean text across all positions simultaneously. Because each denoising pass touches many tokens, generation uses the GPU more efficiently than one-token-at-a-time decoding, making custom-silicon-like speed possible on NVIDIA H100s.
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Audience
AI infrastructure engineers who need fast, private local model inference and an OpenAI-compatible backend for applications and coding agents
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Voice AI infrastructure teams that need low-latency reasoning models for phone agents, tool-calling workflows, and natural customer conversations
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Company InformationBase Compute
Founded: 2026
Australia
www.basecompute.co/getbasert
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Company InformationInception
United States
www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/mercury-2-the-first-reasoning-model-fast-enough-to-pick-up-the-phone
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Integrations
OpenAI
Cerebras
GPT-4.1
Gemma 3
Gemma 4
Groq
Hugging Face
Inception Labs
LiveKit
Llama 3.1
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Integrations
OpenAI
Cerebras
GPT-4.1
Gemma 3
Gemma 4
Groq
Hugging Face
Inception Labs
LiveKit
Llama 3.1
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