What is this blog spam doing here? This is has literally no new information compared to the official release page. It would make a lot more sense to change the link to https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-diffusion/ to discuss the topic.
I think I added value over the official landing page:
1. I included a video showing how fast it runs. They don't have a video on that page.
2. I compared it to Cerebras (which is even faster). They obviously aren't going to compare themselves with a competitor in their own marketing material!
3. These are updates since first publishing, but my post now highlights a couple of Hacker News comments that help explain how this actually works.
I wrote a bunch about how I try to add value when link blogging here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/#trying-to-a...
But when Simon says, Whoa, this is impressive – then I listen.