AOL

Gemini Diffusion was the sleeper hit of Google I/O and some say its blazing speed could reshape the AI model wars

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 ...
InfoQ

Apple Open Sources Diffusion-Based Coding Model DiffuCoder

Apple open sourced DiffuCoder, a diffusion large language model (dLLM) fine-tuned for coding tasks. DiffuCoder is based on Qwen-2.5-Coder and outperforms other code-specific LLMs on several coding ...
SiliconANGLE

Mistral AI’s Devstral 2 is an open-weights vibe coding model built to rival the best proprietary systems

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is jumping into the vibe coding market with the launch of Devstral 2, a new model that’s built specifically to handle advanced coding tasks. Announced ...
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Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text

With so much money flooding into AI startups, it’s a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out. And if the idea is novel enough, it might be easier to get the resources you need as an ...
VentureBeat

Cursor’s new coding model Composer 2 is here: It beats Claude Opus 4.6 but still trails GPT-5.4

Cursor, a San Francisco AI coding platform from startup Anysphere valued at $29.3 billion, has launched Composer 2, a new fine-tuned variant of Chinese open source model Kimi K2.5 now available inside ...