Biggest take away from Google IO day one is text diffusion model can outperform pure autoregressive models in some benchmarks. And Google is ready to put their text diffusion model into production.
It's so exciting to see our recent work on discrete diffusion deployed into production less than a year after we published Masked Diffusion Language Models. Google came with a very similar paper at the same time, so it is likely, in part, based off our research: https://lnkd.in/ej3eX_mU https://lnkd.in/eMF3Sfth