Ask HN: What Happened to dLLMs?

Diffusion LLMs (dLLMs) seemed so promising a year ago, but I don't see much about them now. What happened?

3 points | by ray__ 10 hours ago

3 comments

  • acangiano 7 hours 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.
  • diffusionmodels 4 hours ago
    They’re kinda dyslexic - like bad OCR
  • tmpsvc2695f5 3 hours ago
    [dead]