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PaLM 2 for Text

2023–2025 · Lived 1 year, 11 months

Google's first public answer to GPT-4, and for much of 2023 the model behind Bard. It reached developers under an internal size codename — bison, sitting between gecko and unicorn — that escaped into the public API and was never explained. Every PaLM-era endpoint was switched off together on a single day in April 2025.