Google unveils DiffusionGemma, an AI model that breaks free of left-to-right processing (opens in new tab)

Extremely powerful large language models (LLMs) still operate as though they’re typing on a keyboard, processing workloads in a simple left-to-right fashion. But in locally-run, single-user scenarios, this sequential processing can leave graphics processing units (GPUs) and tensor processing units (TPUs) underutilized. Google is betting that DiffusionGemma can get around this bottleneck. The new experimental open model generates text “exceptionally fast,” creating entire blocks of text simult...