# DiffusionGemma: How Google's Open Text Diffusion Model Writes in Parallel and Gives Autoregression Its First Real Rival - June 26, 2026

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Published: 2026-06-26T10:06:23+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail DiffusionGemma: How Google's Open Text Diffusion Model Writes in Parallel and Gives Autoregression Its First Real Rival Chris and Laura dig into Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma, an open weights, twenty six billion parameter mixture of experts model that abandons token by token generation and instead denoises whole blocks of text in parallel for up to four times faster output. They unpack how text diffusion works, the eye opening speed numbers on consumer hardware, why Googl...

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