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DiffusionGemma

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On the board as live since 2026-06-10 — the watchers keep tracking it: lineup changes, pricing moves and deprecations all alert.

Launch details

Live — our sweep read google/diffusiongemma at $0.05/$0.15 per 1M, 262k ctx, on Sep 19; that it is Google DeepMind's first open-weight text-diffusion model (26B-A4B MoE on the Gemma 4 architecture, Apache 2.0, ~4x faster by denoising 256-token blocks in parallel) and that it was announced Jun 10 is search-grade, not our own reading.

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Timeline

2026-09-19

New on the radar: diffusiongemma appeared in models.dev (nano-gpt)confirmed

2026-06-10

DiffusionGemma verified live — from the vendor's own announcement and catalog listingverified

The official word

We alert on verified API behavior, never on announcements alone — but when Google speaks, it's here: blog.google ↗

Where to use DiffusionGemma

2 providers list DiffusionGemma in the models.dev catalog (as of 2026-11-07), under the model ids shown below.

NanoGPTgoogle/diffusiongemma

Nvidiagoogle/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it

Listings cover the model family, so a provider may list a sibling tier under the same name. Check the id before you build on it.

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DiffusionGemma: quick answers

Is DiffusionGemma out?

Yes. DiffusionGemma is live and has been since June 10, 2026.

When was DiffusionGemma released?

June 10, 2026.

Who makes DiffusionGemma?

Google. ArtificialWatch also tracks Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, Gemini 4, Nano Banana 2.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3.6 Flash from Google.