Dev's custom vLLM patch runs DiffusionGemma on DGX Spark, edging out the commercial API
vllm_project · x · 2026-10-06
Developer HOTHEAD01TH wrote a custom vLLM patch to run DiffusionGemma locally on DGX Spark as a "Jev alternative" and ran live evals: not slower, roughly tied on intelligence, with DiffusionGemma coming out ahead overall. The vLLM team endorsed the work and invited an upstream contribution.
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