DiffusionGemma is Google's first open-weight diffusion language model — text generated by denoising blocks in parallel instead of one token at a time. How it differs from autoregressive Gemma, the real speed win and the honest benchmark tax, and exactly what it takes to run the thing on your own GPU.
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DiffusionGemma: When the LLM Stops Writing Left to Right -
Llama 4 and Gemma 4: The 2026 Self-Hosted Model Landscape Meta shipped Llama 4 Scout and Maverick and Google shipped four Gemma 4 variants under Apache 2.0 — all within a few weeks of each other. This is a practical walkthrough of what each model is, what hardware you actually need, how to deploy them with Ollama, vLLM, and llama.cpp, and which one to pick for which job.