Google introduces PaLM 2
PaLM 2 introduced — more heavily trained on multilingual text spanning over 100 languages, in four sizes: Gecko, Otter, Bison and Unicorn
Why it matters
At Google I/O, Google announced over 25 products and features powered by PaLM 2, including Bard, and said the smallest size, Gecko, can run on mobile devices even offline
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Officialblog.googlehttps://blog.google/technology/ai/google-palm-2-ai-large-language-model/Added in Week 41, 2026 · See that week