The question is no longer just which model is the smartest.
It’s which model is most efficient without sacrificing quality.
The highest-volume AI workloads are bottlenecked by latency, token generation speed, and serving cost. Autoregressive models were not designed for that world.
Part 1 from @StefanoErmon's keynote at @startupgrind on why diffusion models are the future of LLMs.
