# Brendan O’Donoghue

> Brendan O’Donoghue is director of Research; DiffusionGemma / Gemini Diffusion lead. DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Director of Research; DiffusionGemma / Gemini Diffusion lead.

- X: https://x.com/bodonoghue85

## What Brendan builds

- [DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it.md), graded D, 50/100, in Open-weight models. DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT is Google DeepMind's experimental open-weight text diffusion model on the Gemma 4 26B A4B mixture-of-experts architecture, 25.2B parameters with 3.8B active, taking text, images and video and writing text in 256-token blocks, under Apache 2.0. Director of Research; DiffusionGemma / Gemini Diffusion lead, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Gus Martins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gus-martins/), Gemma Product Manager
- [Min Choi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/min-choi/), EmbeddingGemma launch product manager; current Gemini models PM
- [Sahil Dua](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sahil-dua/), EmbeddingGemma research lead; launch lead research engineer
- [Sebastian Flennerhag](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sebastian-flennerhag/), Research Scientist; DiffusionGemma research lead

## Questions

### Who is Brendan O’Donoghue?

Brendan O’Donoghue is director of Research; DiffusionGemma / Gemini Diffusion lead.

### What does Google DeepMind make?

Anchor Terminal lists DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT from Google DeepMind. DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT is Google DeepMind's experimental open-weight text diffusion model on the Gemma 4 26B A4B mixture-of-experts architecture, 25.2B parameters with 3.8B active, taking text, images and video and writing text in 256-token blocks, under Apache 2.0.

### How are Brendan's tools graded?

DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT is graded D, 50 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lgusmartins
- https://x.com/gusthema
- https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/diffusion-gemma-faster-text-generation/
- https://arxiv.org/html/2608.00146v1
- https://x.com/flennerhag
- https://x.com/bodonoghue85
- https://gemma.ai/
- https://x.com/Google
- https://deepmind.google/
- https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/discord
- https://gemma.ai/resources/

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