Google's Gemini Diffusion: LLM Speed Breakthrough

Gemini Diffusion, Google's diffusion-based LLM, achieves impressive text generation speed, rivaling Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Cerebras Coder while potentially using a transformer architecture.

1. Gemini Diffusion is Google's first LLM to use diffusion in place of autoregression, not transformers.
2. Diffusion models learn to generate outputs by refining noise, step-by-step.
3. The key feature of Gemini Diffusion is speed.
4. Gemini Diffusion performance feels similar to the Cerebras Coder tool.
5. Google promises Gemini Diffusion has "the performance of Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite at 5x the speed".