Google is tapping its users' data to give its AI models an advantage over OpenAI and Anthropic, starting with its opt-in “Gemini with personalization” feature
Google is slowly giving Gemini more and more access to user data to ‘personalize’ your responses.
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- I got access to Gemini Diffusion, Google's first diffusion LLM, and the thing is absurdly fast - it ran at 857 tokens/second and built me a prototype chat interface in just a couple of seconds, video here: https://simonwillison.net/... @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net · Simon Willison
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- Very excited to share what I have been working on. Having been part of the Gemini Diffusion team since day one, it is amazing to see our model demoed at Google I/O :) sign up below to try it out! … Blanca Huergo
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Here's the transcript of our conversation. Some highlights! Hassabis on agents: “We are trying to build AGI, which is a full general intelligence, clearly, that would have to understand the physical environment, physical world around you. And two of the massive use cases for
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Alex Kantrowitz
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This was pretty funny. https://www.bigtechnology.com/ ... [image]
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@kantrowitz
Alex Kantrowitz
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I spoke with @GoogleDeepMind CEO @demishassabis and @Google co-founder Sergey Brin yesterday about AI scaling, the AGI timeline, robotics, simulation theory & plenty more. Full interview is up on Big Technology Podcast on your app of choice. [image]
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@timkellogg.me
Tim Kellogg
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oh wow, Gemini is doing is doing a text diffusion model — this is likely most useful when you have a fixed peak amount of time you can wait for a response, like in robotics — blog.google/technology/g...
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@timkellogg.me
Tim Kellogg
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I got access to Gemini Diffusion. It definitely has small model feels, but i like it — long responses appear in evenly-sized chunks. so i think they're doing like 1000 tokens at a time. i did not anticipate that but it makes sense [embedded post]
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@bodonoghue85
Brendan O'Donoghue
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Excited to share what my team has been working on lately - Gemini diffusion! We bring diffusion to language modeling, yielding more power and blazing speeds! 🚀🚀🚀 Gemini diffusion is especially strong at coding. In this example the model generates at 2000 tokens/sec, [video]
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@oriolvinyalsml
Oriol Vinyals
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Today we introduced Gemini Diffusion⚡️ (& DeepThink, Veo3, Imagen4, 2.5 updates...). It's been a dream of mine to remove the need for “left to right” text generation. It's so fast, that we had to *slow down* the video during the presentation. https://deepmind.google/... [video]
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@jack_w_rae
Jack Rae
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The Gemini Diffusion release feels like a landmark moment. For text generation, autoregressive models have always outperformed diffusion models from a quality perspective. It wasn't clear that the gap could ever be closed. The team behind this have kept laser focused, broken [ima…
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@dorialexander
Alexander Doria
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Gemini Diffusion does pass honorably my nearly impossible OCR correction benchmark. [image]
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@kalomaze
@kalomaze
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ughhhh how do they determine adequate depth. i dont wanna be in the sampling mines again if this approach catches on
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@flennerhag
Sebastian Flennerhag
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Excited to share what we've been cooking - Gemini Diffusion!⚡️ Super proud of the team - cracking text diffusion was never a given but now the door is open for new capabilities and unparalleled speed. You can experience vibe-coding in real time here: https://deepmind.google/... […
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@jainprateek_
Prateek Jain
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Thrilled about Gemini Diffusion, the SOTA text diffusion model! Generates 2000 tokens/sec while outperforming Flash-lite on coding tasks. Really ambitious, innovative project with endless possibilities, and the team is just getting started! Congrats @bodonoghue85, @flennerhag, [i…
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@hillbig
@hillbig
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Gemini Diffusion employs diffusion models for LLM, achieving nearly 5x faster output (1500 tokens/second). While diffusion LLMs are particularly effective for coding where fill/fix-in-the-middle are common, this will likely catch up in other domains. https://deepmind.google/...
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@deedydas
Deedy
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The future of building software. LLMs are pretty good at generating code, but they're slow. Gemini Diffusion is 10-15x faster than autoregressive models by using diffusion, which used to be for images. This is the 2nd model after Mercury Small to show this. 2/12
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@blancahuergo
Blanca Huergo
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Very excited to share what I have been working on. Having been part of the Gemini Diffusion team since day one, it is amazing to see our model demoed at Google I/O :) sign up below to try it out!
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@testingcatalog
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Gemini Diffusion will be one of the steps that will define how user interfaces will evolve within the next several years. This is a huge prerequisite for the next level of generative UIs. There won't be a need to build a frontend UIs soon. Insane 🤯 [video]
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@eleurent
Edouard Leurent
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Excited to share what I've been up to: Gemini Diffusion is FAST! I'm convinced this will revolutionise iterative workflows: refine, get instant feedback, repeat! So proud of what our small team achieved here🪐 [video]
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@johnlindquist
John Lindquist
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The Future of Development: Gemini Diffusion [video]
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@jean_tarbou
Jean Tarbouriech
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1000+ words per second! ⚡ We just unleashed Gemini Diffusion at #GoogleIO! 🚀 Awesome being part of the team that took this from a small research project all the way to I/O @GoogleDeepMind 🪐 [video]
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@kimmonismus
@kimmonismus
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[video] Gemini Diffusion has also been lost among the announcements. However, nobody would have expected a diffusion model with 2000t/s to be on a par with Transformer models. It is particularly good at coding. Underhyped.
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@pminervini
@pminervini
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Since Gemini Diffusion was just announced, diffusion LLMs may become mainstream in the near future! Being able to incorporate arbitrary constraints into the model can unlock many possibilities in terms of trustworthiness and robustness 🚀🚀🚀 Paper: https://arxiv.org/... [image]
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@lauriewired
@lauriewired
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I tried to tell you guys that dLLMs were cool😉 gemini diffusion is a neat coder!
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@googleai
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Gemini Diffusion, our newest research model, is significantly faster than our fastest model so far AND matches its coding performance. By correcting errors as the model thinks, it is extremely fast for editing tasks like math and coding. [image]
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@wesrothmoney
Wes Roth
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I just coded up 7 apps in 30 seconds with Gemini Diffusion...this has to be a world record. the video is 1x speed 👀 [video]
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@volokuleshov
Volodymyr Kuleshov
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Congratulations Google on announcing a Mercury-level diffusion language model! 🙃 https://deepmind.google/...
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@petarv_93
Petar Veličković
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little known fact: i sit next to the team that built gemini diffusion — such an amazing and dedicated group of people, keeping us inspired every day! — and they've now delivered this amazing model for google i/o. give it a try... it's blazing fast! 🚀♊️🪐
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@pranamanam
Pranam Chatterjee
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As you know, we've been deep in the discrete diffusion trenches for sequence design for quite some time now (both theoretically and for biology!)—PepTune for multi-objective discrete diffusion for therapeutic peptide design from @_sophia_tang_, P2 for path planning and improved
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@cindyxywu
Cindy Wu
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My team at GDM has just launched Gemini Diffusion, a SOTA text diffusion model, at #GoogleIO. Text diffusion generates the text in parallel via iterative refinement, making it super fast. Get on the waitlist to try the experimental demo model: https://deepmind.google/...
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@stanfordnlp
@stanfordnlp
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It's an interesting phenomenon of the current age how development of large deep learning text models (LLMs) is sucking in the research brainpower of so many)!
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@sedielem
Sander Dieleman
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In 2022, I worked on text diffusion for a bit and wrote a blog post. Since then, people have regularly asked me about scaling diffusion LLMs. All the while, I was on the first row watching Brendan assemble a cracked team and make it a reality. Now I can stop being coy about it😁
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@amyxlu
Amy Lu
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It's finally happening!!! Diffusion is so much more satisfying than autoregressive for protein & DNA sequences that don't really have directionality 🥹 Waiting for this to empirically land & replace BERT/one-step discrete diffusion for protein foundation models 👀
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@jeremyphoward
Jeremy Howard
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@bodonoghue85 Makes me so happy to see this! :D I've hearing about this project for quite some time, and was really hoping that it would see the light of day.
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@archiexzzz
Archie Sengupta
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Got access to Google diffusion. HOLY SH!T 909 tokens/s ?????? I made a calendar in 3s? 3 fcuking seconds? [image]
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@googledeepmind
@googledeepmind
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We've developed Gemini Diffusion: our state-of-the-art text diffusion model. Instead of predicting text directly, it learns to generate outputs by refining noise, step-by-step. This helps it excel at coding and math, where it can iterate over solutions quickly. #GoogleIO [image]
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Why nobody mentioned “Gemini Diffusion” here? It's a BIG deal
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