diffusion-model

Microsoft has released Mage-Flow, a family of 4B-parameter image generation and editing models built on a shared tokenizer-transformer stack. According to Microsoft, the Turbo variants match or beat open-source systems with 5-8x more parameters while running in 4 diffusion steps.

Inception has released Mercury 2, positioning it as the first diffusion-based language reasoning model. Rather than generating text sequentially word-by-word like standard language models, Mercury 2 refines entire passages in parallel, according to the company.