[neximo64]

Well its not the first.

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-diffusion/

[yorwba]

Mercury was released at least 59 days ago and precedes Gemini Diffusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43851099

You're right though that they weren't the first, e.g. here's a survey paper on text diffusion models from 2023: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06574