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A diffusion-based LLM cannot be used in production without a serving engine, such as a vLLM equivalent.
Stefano Ermon · Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon · 18 Sep 2026
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“and deploy something end-to-end we're learning a lot about how to serve these models and how to build software that it's kind of like needed to run these models and that again becomes IP like even if you train the diffusion-based LLM if you don't have the serving engine if you don't have the VLLM equivalent to serve it you're still stuck and you still cannot use it.”20:56Report a misattribution
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