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Demis Hassabis publicly praised DiffusionGemma on 2026-06-11, calling it…

2026-06-11 · 00:52 UTC ·@demishassabis ·0 min read

Brief

Demis Hassabis celebrated Google Gemma’s new DiffusionGemma on 2026-06-11, highlighting its claimed 4× speedup over other Gemma 4 models. The model, released under an Apache 2.0 license, explores non‑sequential diffusion-style text generation that outputs whole text blocks at once; Hassabis congratulated @bodonoghue85 and the team and anticipated community experimentation.

Why it matters

Demis Hassabis publicly praised DiffusionGemma on 2026-06-11, calling it “lightning fast” and saying it’s 4× faster than other Gemma 4 models.

Key details

  • DiffusionGemma is an experimental, open model from Google Gemma released under an Apache 2.0 license that generates entire blocks of text simultaneously instead of token-by-token.
  • Hassabis specifically congratulated @bodonoghue85 and the development team and expressed excitement about community uses and builds.
Source evidence

Awesome to see this innovation in text diffusion. DiffusionGemma is lightning fast, 4x faster than other Gemma 4 models! Congrats to @bodonoghue85 and the team who worked so hard on this - excited to see what people build with it!

Google Gemma (@googlegemma)

Meet DiffusionGemma!

An experimental open model that explores a fast approach to text generation, released under an Apache 2.0 license.

Moving beyond sequential, token-by-token processes to generate entire blocks of text simultaneously. Here’s what’s new with DiffusionGemma: 👇

Video

— https://nitter.net/googlegemma/status/2064741002204545467#m