Ask HN: What Happened to dLLMs? 1 points by ray__ 2mo ago ↗ HN Diffusion LLMs (dLLMs) seemed so promising a year ago, but I don't see much about them now. What happened?
[–] acangiano 2mo ago ↗ Because they shipped and are better only for specific applications. For everything else, they lag behind frontier models. They win in latency-sensitive niches (e.g., autocomplete, code infilling, subagent calls). Not frontier-level reasoning.
[–] simulacra8 2mo ago ↗ dLLMs are still promising. It's a counterintuitive hardware limitation. You should watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r305-aQTaU0
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