# PaLM 2 for Text

> 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.

2023-05-11 — 2025-04-21 · lived 1 year, 11 months

This URL is the guided walk — the 3D cemetery, standing at this grave. The written record is at [PaLM 2 for Text's epitaph](https://models.rip/text-bison/epitaph).

## Elsewhere

- [The whole cemetery](https://models.rip/)
- [The dataset](https://models.rip/graveyard.json)