[Pixel Post] Riding the Noise: A 2025 Snapshot of State-of-the-Art Diffusion Models

Jul 7, 2025 · 10 min read · Diffusion models went from niche curiosity to the de facto workhorse of generative AI in less than five years. If you blinked during finals week, you probably missed three new sampling tricks and a Transformer architecture with better biceps than you...