Google Quietly Posts DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B, a Diffusion-Based Open Multimodal Gemma

Google (Hugging Face)·low signal

Google's HF org lists google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it (updated ~4 days ago), a 26B (A4B ≈ ~4B active) image-text-to-text member of the Gemma open family — notable as a diffusion-style rather than purely autoregressive open release. Confirmed on Google's official HF org page; flagged low because it sits ~4 days out and Google has not published a detailed announcement I could verify.