DiffusionGemma: Inside Google's Open Weight Diffusion Model That Generates Text 4x Faster - June 13, 2026

DiffusionGemma: Inside Google's Open Weight Diffusion Model That Generates Text 4x Faster - June 13, 2026 Google DeepMind just released DiffusionGemma, its first open weight diffusion language model, which refines whole blocks of text in parallel instead of predicting one token at a time. Chris and Laura dig into how discrete text diffusion works, why this 26B mixture of experts model runs on a single consumer GPU, the up to 4x speed gain, and the quality tradeoffs Google is openly acknowled...