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You Might Not Need 50 Diffusion Steps — Ziv Ilan, Nvidia

Jun 16, 2026 · 18:46

Nvidia's Ziv Ilan explains how combining quantization, caching, and step distillation enables near real-time video diffusion on a single Blackwell B200 GPU. Working with Black Forest Labs on Flux 2, dynamic quantization reduces memory and compute, caching skips redundant denoising steps, and distillation cuts steps from fifty to as few as one. The open-source FastGen repo packages these post-training and sharding techniques, achieving 10–200x speedups for real-time generation.

Build & deploy AI-powered apps — Paige Bailey, Google DeepMind

Apr 29, 2026 · 1:03:20

Paige Bailey, engineering lead for developer relations at Google DeepMind, demonstrates how the company's latest multimodal models and AI Studio platform enable rapid prototyping of AI-powered apps at minimal cost. She showcases Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite analyzing YouTube dinosaur videos for under a penny, the new Build feature constructing a fully functional bookshelf cataloger with Firebase database and Google login, and Gemini Live providing real-time multilingual screen interaction. Other demos include Genie 3 generating playable world models from text prompts, NanoBanana 2 performing cost-effective image editing, Veo 3.1 Lite producing stock footage (e.g., a "vegan basketball food truck" featuring Chef Curry), Lyria 3 creating custom music tracks, and Gemma 4 offering open-source multimodal models that run on mobile devices. Bailey emphasizes that the entire stack—grounded by Google Search and code execution—allows developers to ship ideas that would have been startups years ago, with all code exportable for production use.