FAMILY / GOOGLE DEEPMIND

LaMDA / PaLM

Google’s pre-Gemini language-model history: LaMDA’s dialogue research and the general-purpose PaLM line, not a claimed chain of inherited weights.

01 / LINEAGE MAP

Model lineage

predecessor derived / sibling

02 / GENERATIONS

Google’s language-model research line for open-ended dialogue, focused on conversational quality and topic development.

2021-05-18

A 540B dense language model trained with Pathways, demonstrating large-scale multitask and few-shot capabilities.

2022-04-04

The successor family to PaLM, improving multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities and powering Bard and other Google products.

2023-05-10