Google's DiffusionGemma AI Hits 1,000 Tokens Per Second—And It's Free

In brief

• Google released DiffusionGemma, a free open-weight model that generates entire 256-token blocks simultaneously via text diffusion—hitting over 1,000 tokens per second on an NVIDIA H100, four times faster than standard autoregressive models.
• The custom drafter module DiffusionGemma needs for local inference doesn't exist in any public runtime yet—not in mlx-lm, not in LM Studio—making it…