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Introducing 'ELYZA-LLM-Diffusion,' a diffusion language model that can generate Japanese language quickly

ELYZA, an AI development company established by the Matsuo Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, released a Japanese-specific diffusion language model, ' ELYZA-LLM-Diffusion,' on January 16, 2026.
Business Wire

Inception Raises $50M to Power Diffusion LLMs, Increasing LLM Speed and Efficiency by up to 10X and Unlocking Real-Time, Accessible AI Applications

New funding will scale the development of faster, more efficient AI models for text, voice, and code Inception dLLMs have already demonstrated 10x speed and efficiency gains over traditional LLMs PALO ...
VentureBeat

Beyond GPT architecture: Why Google's Diffusion approach could reshape LLM deployment

Last month, along with a comprehensive suite of new AI tools and innovations, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion. This experimental research model uses a diffusion-based approach to generate ...
TechCrunch

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 ...