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Most language models write one word after another, left to right. A new openly-released model of real size generates text the way image AIs make pictures — refining a whole draft at once.
Almost every chatbot writes one word at a time, left to right. A newly released model of real size writes the way image AIs paint, refining a whole passage at once, and finally holds its own.
ICML 2026 gave an Outstanding Paper award to work showing that diffusion language models waste their much-touted any-order generation by skipping the hardest, most decision-critical words -- and that forcing a plain left-to-right order during trainin