Amid the flood of AI-related announcements at Google’s I/O developer conference Tuesday was a brief demo that, although it didn’t get much stage time, has AI insiders buzzing.
Gemini Diffusion, an experimental research LLM from Google DeepMind, has blisteringly fast output (between 1,000 and 2,000 “tokens,” or chunks of text, per second, which is four to five times faster than Gemini’s most powerful public LLM.) It also has surprisingly good performance, particularly in areas like coding and complex mathematical reasoning.
