DiffuSpace
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DiffuSpace, founded in May 2026 in Shenzhen, builds diffusion language models (dLLMs) that use parallel generation, bidirectional modeling and iterative refinement to move beyond token-by-token autoregressive generation.
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Snapshot 2026-10-21- Startup SignalsRankedof 2,286
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DiffuSpace, founded in May 2026 in Shenzhen, builds diffusion language models (dLLMs) that use parallel generation, bidirectional modeling and iterative refinement to move beyond token-by-token autoregressive generation. Its model line covers diffusion language models, code models and vision-language / vision-language-action models. The founding team comes from the HKU NLP Lab, led by Lingpeng Kong, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Hong Kong and co-director of the lab; the team has worked on diffusion language models since 2022 and open-sourced Dream 7B, Dream-Coder 7B, Dream-VL/VLA and DiffuCoder.
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- 2026-10-09New funding round连续两轮合计数亿元人民币
Investors · Matrix Partners China, Shunwei Capital, Legend Capital, CAS Star, Hubble, Horizon RoboticsSource · eu.36kr.com ↗
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DiffuSpace, founded in May 2026 in Shenzhen, builds diffusion language models (dLLMs) that use parallel generation, bidirectional modeling and iterative refinement to move beyond token-by-token autoregressive generation. Its model line covers diffusion language models, code models and vision-language / vision-language-action models. The founding team comes from the HKU NLP Lab, led by Lingpeng Kong, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Hong Kong and co-director of the lab; the team has worked on diffusion language models since 2022 and open-sourced Dream 7B, Dream-Coder 7B, Dream-VL/VLA and DiffuCoder.
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