Stefano Ermon
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
The Race to Production-Grade Diffusion LLMs with Stefano Ermon
- Published
- March 26, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 3m
- Summary source
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- Last updated
- Apr 21, 2026
Discusses llm.
Summary
Today, we're joined by Stefano Ermon, associate professor at Stanford University and CEO of Inception Labs to discuss diffusion language models. We dig into how diffusion approaches—traditionally used for images—are being adapted for text and code generation, the technical challenges of applying continuous methods to discrete token spaces, and how diffusi…
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Today, we're joined by Stefano Ermon, associate professor at Stanford University and CEO of Inception Labs to discuss diffusion language models. We dig into how diffusion approaches—traditionally used for images—are being adapted for text and code generation, the technical challenges of applying continuous methods to discrete token spaces, and how diffusion models compare to traditional autoregressive LLMs. Stefano introduces Mercury 2, a commercial-scale diffusion LLM that can generate multiple
Themes
- llm