Another of the announcements from Google I/O yesterday was Gemini Diffusion, Google's first LLM to use diffusion (similar to image models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion) in place of transformers. …

DiffusionGemma generates text up to 4x faster than traditional models by producing entire blocks simultaneously, achieving roughly 1,479 tokens per second.

Developers building real-time AI—such as chat assistants, copilots, and agentic workflows—are often constrained by token-by-token generation speed. This limits responsiveness,…