Episode
The Race to Production-Grade Diffusion LLMs with Stefano Ermon - #764
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) · Mar 26, 2026 · 1 h 03 min
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…