PaLM
Alphabet's research-era flagship line, superseded by Gemini.
At a glance
Current release
Modeltext-bison (PaLM 2 on Vertex AI)
From the release row PaLM 2.
Family record: Press release · 5 Sep 2026
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Releases
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PaLM
Pathways Language Model: a 540-billion-parameter dense decoder-only Transformer; state-of-the-art few-shot results claimed, including 58% on GSM8K.
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PaLM 2
Unveiled at I/O 2023 in four sizes (Gecko, Otter, Bison, Unicorn) with improved multilingual, reasoning and coding; said to power Bard and 25+ Google products.