Gemini Diffusion vs MiMo-V2-Flash

Gemini Diffusion

Google DeepMind

Gemini Diffusion is an experimental text and code generation model from Google DeepMind, announced at Google I/O in May 2025 as the first diffusion-based language model to achieve quality comparable to autoregressive models on standard benchmarks. Unlike transformer-based models that predict tokens sequentially left-to-right, it generates entire blocks of text by iteratively refining noise — the paradigm used in image and video generation models — enabling faster sampling speeds and stronger mid-generation error correction for code and mathematical editing tasks. At announcement it was available only as an experimental demo via waitlist, with no public API, marking it as a research milestone rather than a production deployment.

Xiaomi

MiMo-V2-Flash, released by Xiaomi on December 16, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 309 billion total parameters and 15 billion active parameters per inference, designed for high-speed reasoning and agentic workflows. It features a 256K token context window, processes up to 150 tokens per second, and was trained on 27 trillion tokens. MiMo-V2-Flash targets open-source deployments requiring fast, capable coding and reasoning with an efficient inference footprint, under an MIT license.